Italy Food Tour: Lemon Groves, Olive Oil, How to make Cheese & Pizza
In May 2019 we visited Massa Lubrense, an area in South Italy near Sorrento & Naples. We took the 5 hour Agriturismo il Turuziello Enogastronomic Tour that's run by local guides: Klaudia, Benedetto and Lucio.
This food tour is found in the little farming village of Schiazzano and the tour included:
- a lemon grove tour and explanation of how lemons are grown, farmed & cultivated on an Italian farm. The Sorrento Lemon tour also included tasting:
- Lemon Marmalade
- Lemonaid / lemonade
- limoncello (including instructions of how to make your own)
- an olive grove tour and small lecture teaching about olive crop farming, harvesting, and how the olives are made into olive oil.
This olive oil manufacturing bit was accompanied with tastings of different flavored olive oils, with olive oils infused with basil, lemon, oregano, rosemary, chili / chilli and oranges.
- a cheese making demonstration: Benedetto the Cheese man took us to his family's dairy farm where he showed us how to make cheese including soft white cheeses like caciottine and ricotta, and firmer cheeses like Fior di Latte mozzarella, aged caciocavallo cheese, and Provolone del Monaco matured cheese. Taste samples were given of these too. I've included Benedetto's explanations of how he makes cheese using milk, enzymes, curds and whey.
- Pizza-making: After being shown around the dairy farm, we were driven on tiny red ferrari 3-wheeled cars (I think these three wheel cars may be Piaggio Ape [the retro Ape Calessino model or Ape RR] or Piaggio VespaCar, aka TriVespa vehicles, based on a vespa scooter) to a local restaurant & pizzeria, Ristorante da Francesco, where we donned some white gloves and had a go at making pizza the Italian way, after a quick demo of pizza dough making by the chef.
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NB. I made this video just for fun. This video was not sponsored or affiliated in any way. They don't even know I made it!
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Sound & Music Credits:
Jeremiah's Song by Dan Lebowitz from the youtube audiolibrary
Boxcar Rag by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (
Artist:
Glitter Blast Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Source:
Bitters at the Saloon by Bird Creek from the YouTube Audio Library
Camera Shutter Click by Mike Koenig from Soundbible.com