From amazing butchers to delicious cheeses to insanely fresh fruit and vegetables, you'll find it all in Terlizzi, Italy. Being our "hometown," it holds a special place in our hearts here at Villa Cappelli. In this episode, we'll take you a short tour of this charming town and what makes it so special — and it's not just the food.
Topics we cover:
- The status of our extra virgin olive oil shipment for this year
- Whey have to ship our 500 mL bottle's labels all the way from Japan
- What people call their "country homes" here in Italy
- The national graffiti contest featured as your enter Terlizzi
- How Italians always manage to save money
- How Terlizzi is known as the city of flowers, being the largest fresh cut flower producer in all of Italy
- The rules of the Living Villa Cappelli drinking game:
- every time Paul corrects Steven, you have to take a drink
- every time Paul contradicts himself, you have to chug your whole drink
- Terlizzi is also known for its ceramics, which we use for some our extra virgin olive oil
- How the town is also famous for its butchers
- People shop individual butcher shops, not from the supermarket
- Paul has a butcher for each different meat we want — beef, pork, horse, or chicken
- How Paul also has different vendor with a stand alone shop for different fruits and vegetables, and even bread
- How the cheese shops are amazing here, but they tend to have only local cheeses
- The amazing fresh mozzarella you can find in town
- And the local stracciatella and burrata
- Our recipe for Caprese salad
- The fresh ricotta cheese that's also amazing
- The clock tower of Terlizzi, which is the largest back light clock tower in Europe after Big Ben
- The amazing tree-lined street that surrounds the old town that used to be the moat of the old town
- The medieval old town of Terlizzi
- Our amazing rib recipe
- Why the church in this area, from the 1700s, is still called the "new church"
- Why you can find pieces of the old church all over town
- The beautiful area in Terlizzi where every night people take their passeggiata
- Santa Maria di Nuova, the other church in town and the amazing frescoes of Joseph and his multi-colored coat. Check out his story here or here.
- To check out the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat here
- How Terlizzi once belonged to Monti Carlo
- The different spots where you can get married in Terlizzi, and how Villa Cappelli is one of them
- How Terlizzi and Sovereto, a suburb of Terlizzi, were named one of the most beautiful places in Italy
- The sheep paths surrounding the area, including right by Villa Capppelli
- Paul's Facebook group Terlizzi, USA
- The new Facebook group Paul will be starting with pictures of properties you can buy in the area
