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Apulian chef Vincenzo Elia from Mesagne, in the province of Brindisi, will be at the EXPO 2015 on August 1-31. Chef Elia uses a lot of Slow Food ingredients in his dishes. In Milan he will prepare a special fish soup (the “Boccaccio”), handmade stuffed pasta and a dessert made with Toritto almonds. ...

Apulian chef Ippazio Turco from Ristorante Lemì in Tricase (Lecce) will be the last chef going to the EXPO on October 1-31. His creative dishes include fresh fish from Salento, the Southern part of Puglia. Here is our exclusive interview with chef Ippazio Turco. ...

Apulian chef Stefano D’Onghia from Osteria Botteghe Antiche in Putignano (Bari), will be at the EXPO on September 1-30 with some of his special local dishes from Puglia. Here is our exclusive interview. ...

Apulian chef Antonio Scalera from La Bul restaurant in Bari will be at the EXPO in Milan on July 1-31. He’s going to reinterpret some typical dishes from Bari with his creativity. Here is our exclusive interview with chef Scalera. ...

Apulian chef Nazario Biscotti from Lesina (FG) will be at the EXPO on June 1-30. Biscotti and his wife Lucia Schiavone will bring some of their special recipes from Lake Lesina to Milan. Lake Lesina is a salt water lake on the promontory of Gargano, in the north of Puglia. The lake is populated mostly by eels, the main ingredient of Nazario Biscotti’s recipes. Here...

Angelo Di Biccari (aka Trilussa) is going to the EXPO in Milan on May 3rd with his famous bread made inside an historic 1526 straw burning oven in Orsara di Puglia (read here about it). He will share his stories and his bread with all Italian Pavilion visitors through a “spiegapane” (literally “bread explainer”). Take a look at our exclusive...