No Pizza, No Lasagne, No Tourist Menu at Our Favourite Venice Restaurant

Antiche Carampane, Venice, Italy. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Our favourite restaurant in Venice, Antiche Carampane, has a warning sign outside so you know what kind of restaurant it is: “No pizza, no lasagne, no menù turistico“. Here’s why we love this very special Venetian restaurant, secreted down a hard-to-find lane in Venice’s San Polo neighbourhood. Hidden down a lane in the Venice sestiere … Read more

We Learn to Make Homemade Puglian Pizza in Our Own Woodfire Pizza Oven

Homemade Puglian Pizza from Our Own Woodfired Pizza Oven, Alberobello, Puglia, Italy. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Puglian pizza making is a two stage process over two days, we learn when I get lessons in making homemade pizzas in the wood-fired oven attached to our trullo just outside Alberobello in Italy’s southern region of Puglia. Maria, the caretaker of our traditional trullo, has quickly become my cooking instructor and our friend. When she came … Read more