REFUGE AND LOT OF WORK
Breakfast in the garden
WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY: BEATRIX TORMA
One of the most popular breakfast pastries in the Salento region is the "pasticciotto", a pastry filled with cooked vanilla custard. And while there's no doubt that breakfast in an Italian bar is captivating for the atmosphere alone, there's nothing like a meal in the garden.
When she has time, Ivana makes sugar-free almond pasta, golden taralli and other fruity specialities for breakfast, but the unpredictability of gardening doesn't always allow it. But they always stick to meals in the garden. This is possible at several points in the garden. In the morning in the shade of the African love-flowers and pomegranates, at noon in the safe shelter of the garden arbour, among the olive trees of the guest house, among the vines and palms, or on the side of the vegetable garden.
But occasionally, they'll picnic anywhere in the garden and enjoy what the two of them have created.
The Milanese couple, a medical researcher and journalist, have traded their careers for a dream. In the middle of nowhere, they have created a magical garden of several hectares, the details of which will be revealed to you on more than one occasion.
