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Italy's Puglia region offers the visitor such a feast of culinary delights it really is difficult to know where to start. Food and wine is almost a religion in Puglia, as it is througout Italy. And to enjoy the vast range of traditional flavours on offer you are advised to take your time and do the job thoroughly. Eating out means encountering a wonderful variety of Italian dishes, usually divided into three courses (antipasti, primo piatto and secondo piatto) followed by dessert, coffee and the choice of a mind-boggling array of usually very potent liqueurs, called "digestive". If done properly the whole thing can easily last two or three hours! You will probably notice different names for restaurants apart from ristorante, such as osteria, trattoria, agriturismo and pizzeria, but rest assured that all serve up a range of great Italian flavours to savour. Pizzerias generally open only in the evening because they use large wood ovens, but pizza can be bought by the slice from take-aways at lunchtime as well. Seafood is excellent along the Adriatic coast, while inland traditional cooking of local organic produce is very much to the fore. Local dishes also include tasty sun-dried vegetables of every type imaginable, making Puglia one of the more vegetarian friendly regions of Italy. The very fertile soil and hot dry climate of Puglia made it the bread basket of Roman times and today the region is still envied for the fine durum wheat it produces, which goes on to make the famed Altamura bread and various delicious types of pasta, including the celebrated orecchiette (ear-shaped pasta) often eaten with cime di rapa. Many towns and villages in Italy's Puglia region have their own food and wine events. Here is a small selection of them:
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