028: Terlizzi — a foodie paradise

Living Villa Cappelli

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