Fresh pasta, bread and pastry

Lauria figure-of-eight biscuits and gassosa

Lauria's and Latronico's traditional biscuits and sweets in the 2026 national list, the figure-of-eight recipe according to the Comune of Latronico, the Pollino tarallo, gassosa between memory and sources, and two towns between Monte Alpi and the Noce valley.

Ceglie biscuit

Ceglie Messapica's piscquett'l: local almonds, Brindisi cherries and grapes, Slow Food Presidium and PAT, weddings and favours, and a day between castle, collegiate church and trulli.

Ciceri e tria and rustico leccese

The chickpea pasta, part of it fried, of 19 March and the filled puff pastry born in 18th-century salons: history, technique, festivals and where to taste them in the Salento.

Sulmona sugared almonds

Sulmona, town of Ovid and confetti: the history of the craft, copper pans, the museum of confectionery technology, Piazza Garibaldi and the Peligna valley.

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Sweets through the year

Three household traditions marking Christmas, Easter and remembrance.

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Bari focaccia and panzerotti

Potato dough, cherry tomatoes and oregano; the fried half-moon filled with mozzarella: history, technique, local variants and how to taste them in Bari.

Salento frisella

Barley or wheat, sourdough, double baking and hanging tomatoes: how the frisa is made, how it is eaten in the Salento and where to look for it between Otranto, Lecce and the coast.

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Mormanno lentils and bocconotti

A tiny, mottled lentil recovered from family plots and the shortcrust-and-jam bocconotto: Mormanno in the Pollino Park, its Votive Lighthouse and nearby villages.

Monte Sant'Angelo filled wafers

The nuns' sweet of Monte Sant'Angelo: legend, recipe, the Gargano's big bread and a day between the sanctuary, the Junno quarter and the May and September pilgrimages.

Pane di Altamura PDO

The PDO bread of Alta Murgia: durum wheat semolina, mother yeast, wood-fired ovens, the history of public ovens and statutes, the masseria landscape and a day in Altamura.

Pane di Matera PGI

The bread of the Sassi: durum semolina and heritage wheat, fruit-based sourdough, cornetto and forma alta shapes, family bread stamps, cialledda and feddarauss, and the city around it.

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Pasta di Gragnano PGI

A PGI tied to a single town: local spring water, bronze dies, slow drying, a town designed to let pasta dry and the Valley of the Mills.

Pasticciotto from Lecce

The Salento breakfast pastry: how it is made, what the records say about its history, its twin the fruttone and a day between Lecce and Galatina.

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Traditional Puglian dishes

Orecchiette, focaccia, panzerotti, tiella and Salento cooking: connecting dishes with places.

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Puglian taralli

Dough, two-stage cooking and aromas: understanding Puglian taralli beyond the aperitivo.

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Torrone di Bagnara PGI

Italy's first torrone with a PGI: Martiniana and Torrefatto glassato, high-temperature cooking and the glassy break, the port's history and the late-November festival.

Guardiagrele torrone and Abruzzo sweets

No PDO or PGI: Guardiagrele torrone, sise delle monache and pane nobile are traditional products recognised by the Abruzzo Region and confirmed in the 2026 national list, like parrozzo, cicerchiata, Sulmona confetti and soft chocolate torrone; in August, the crafts fair.

Ospedaletto d'Alpinolo nougat

The nougat village below Montevergine: a town born for pilgrims, the two cupeto recipes, priest's chestnuts, the Juta and the devotees' footpath.