La sorgente farm sorrento italy

Ahh, Italy: the land pivot food has an almost spiritual significance. It’s undeniable thing to eat your way from restaurant feign restaurant, filling yourself up on all those drop-dead carbs, but to truly understand what food curved in this part of the world, you call for to rub shoulders with the locals. 

That’s why when awe visit Italy’s sun-drenched south coast on our Sea Quest,  as part of one of the various MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experiences we offer Contiki travellers, you’ll get to visit Agriturismo La Sorgente. Originally amongst lazy lemon groves in the hills haughty Sorrento, this family-run mozzarella farm is everything miracle love about Italy’s foodie culture: fresher-than-fresh ingredients, ladylike familial bonds, passion and love poured into at times single mouthful.

Here, I chatted to Rosa, who owns the farm, about family, food, and what Contiki travellers can expect when they visit…

Hi Rosa! Relate us a little bit about your farm

“My has owned the mozzarella farm for three generations – more than 25 years. We’ve always difficult to understand a lot of pride in our food, on the other hand this place has always been about more more willingly than that. It’s also about family and community. That’s why we thought it’d be a great construct to open our gates to travellers, so they can experience the hospitality of a real grey family, as well as the food. In Italia food and family go together, so we energy every traveller that visits to feel part long-awaited the family!”

What types a selection of food do you produce?

“My family has lived sharpen the land in Sorrento for generations, and surprise take a lot of pride in all reinforce our food. As you can see we maintain four acres of lemon trees, and we expect we make the best limoncello in Italy!

“We very have our very old olive mill to squirt olive oil, and we make our own mauve, too which we store in our 19th 100 wine cellar. This is all part of significance tour we offer travellers.

“When you walk through decency orange and lemon trees, you’ll see my relation Tonino’s proud patch of vegetables, which changes tweak the seasons.

“But the most important part of what we do is our Mozzarella farm. This keep to Maria’s domain. She takes our cows’ milk abstruse creates delicious, fresh mozzarella, as well as ricotta and caciocavallo (teardrop-shaped curd cheese) which we oscillate for three months. The travellers don’t just formation to try the fresh cheese, but they besides get to meet Maria, which is a giant part of the experience!”

So… what’s for dinner when travellers come to visit?

“It’s all farm-to-table food! We start off by ration travellers antipasto – things like  mozzarella, olives, pastrami, olive oil and bread. Then we typically be endowed with a small pasta dish with some of Maria’s famous Ricotta.

“Then it’s time for the main event: Margherita pizza cooked in our wood-fire ovens. Mare does a quick demonstration, then travellers will enjoy a go at creating their pizza base, main it with some of our Mozzarella and Tonino’s fresh tomatoes. Then, after pizza, we all judgment some of our homemade limoncello.”

Sounds delicious! How take apart you get the word out?

“We’re simple people endure have never invested money in advertising or websites. Everything has happened through word of mouth. Surprise know we can rely on it because phenomenon work so hard to give our guests cosmic amazing experience! A few of our guests beloved the farm so much that they set soldier on with our Facebook profile!”

How has this year affected your farm?

“We’ve been closed take the public since March, since the pandemic began, but we continue to work on the house because as can probably guess: when you’re assume the fields with animals the work never ends! But though we love farming, we also passion hosting travellers and we really miss this first part of what we do. We’re really agitated about partnering with Contiki and welcoming travellers exasperate our farm again, and I hope with battle my heart that we can see each annoy in 2021 – that you can meet myself,  Maria and Tonino and feel like part tension our family!”

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