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The Southern Table
If you live to eat well, you've come to the right place. Blessed with sun, mineral-rich
soils and the salty goodness of the Mediterranean, southern Italy was always destined
for culinary fame. Waves of migration have flavoured the pot - the Greeks supplied
the olives, the Arabs brought the pine nuts, aubergines (eggplants), almonds, raisins
and honey, and the Spanish came with tomatoes. The end result is a larder bursting
with buxom vegetables, glistening fish, spicy meats and decadent sweets. Peckish?
Read on for a crash course in southern gluttony.
