Abruzzo: a magnificent slice of Italy, unspoiled by tourism
Join my friend CarloMaria and me on a very special gastronomic trip in September.
Happy Monday, itinerant cook!
Last September, Thierry and I spent a week exploring one of the most amazing destinations I’ve ever experienced: Abruzzo, Italy. It’s a place of breathtaking landscapes, dazzling villages, medieval castles, sandy beaches with turquoise water, rich culinary heritage, magnificent wines and rolling hills blanketed with olive groves and vineyards.
We headed there because I’d been hearing about the region — which straddles the Adriatic Sea on the east and the majestic Apennine Mountains on the west — for years from my friend Carlo-Maria Ciampoli. Carlo is a brilliant architect and design visionary who was born and raised in Pescara, Abruzzo’s principal city. He’s also a gastronome — and one of my trusted go-to sources for inside dope about Italian cooking as actually practiced in Italy.
Carlo is based in Boulder, Colorado, but …