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Moving to ITALY

After an absence of nearly 40 years, I arrived back in Puglia on 10 May 2019, me and my purple aubergine of a car, rammed full with pretty much everything I owned.

‘I’d had one of those light-bulb moments’

I knew Puglia was a region I wanted to get to know intimately, to understand its culture, life, history and geography, reflected through the prism of the food on the tables of locals and of tourists too. I was reminded of my 20-year-old self, scribbling in notebooks as I travelled through Italy’s south – only this time, I was back to stay.

I entered by a back route, unpropitious with its potholes and twists and turns, squiggling along the northern perimeter of the Gargano Peninsula to

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