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Slow Travel in Northern Italy: Why the Parma Apennines Do It Better Than Puglia
Short answer: Slow travel in Italy works best where tourism never arrived. Bedonia — a mountain village in the Taro valley, province of Parma — has no queue, no bucket list and no reason to hurry you. Cook the Mountain runs small culinary retreats here, in a village where the lifestyle and food traditions were never interrupted, not because it can’t compete with Puglia, Tuscany, or Rome, but because like so many Italian villages, there was never enough money coming through

Melina Puntoriero
Sep 187 min read


The Thing Most Chefs Were NEVER Taught About Pasta
The Thing Most Chefs Were Never Taught About Pasta

Melina Puntoriero
Jul 116 min read
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