Apulian

Born in Terlizzi, a small community not far from the Apulian capital of Bari, Nicola Vendola grew up in a family of modest means.

Nichi Vendola, a gay, ex-communist governor, becomes the unlikely rival to Italy's Berlusconi Jason Horowitz 2011

Something similar happened with a pasta dish of paccheri (they're tubular, they're from Naples and, no, I'd never heard of them, either) with burrata, a posh type of Apulian mozzarella, and nduja, a Calabrian sausage.

Restaurant: Tinello, London SW1 John Lanchester 2010

It notes that the Apulian cup, valued at some $35,000, is "the property of an American private collector" and that it was sold in New York in 1994.

Critics Say Christie's Should Pull 3 Items From Auction 2010

A Roman marble torso sculpted in the second century AD, an Apulian drinking-cup from the fourth century BC and a Greek terracotta figure of a goddess made in the third century BC are to be auctioned on June 10.

Critics Say Christie's Should Pull 3 Items From Auction 2010

The Calabrian Mafia, or ‘Ndrangheta, is one of Italy’s four major crime syndicates, similar to the Apulian Sacra Corona Unita, the Neapolitan Camorra and the more widely known Sicilian Mafia.

Australian-Calabrian Mob Boss Rosario Gangemi Dies « Skid Roche 2008

At Coccaro the bent is toward Apulian home cooking, with regional dishes from Puglia, such as Zampina sausage with chard and tomatoes, or homemade cavatelli pasta with broad bean puree, cherry tomatoes and red onion.

Sniffing Out Local Gems 2010

The Calabrian Mafia, or ‘Ndrangheta, is one of Italy’s four major crime syndicates, similar to the Apulian Sacra Corona Unita, the Neapolitan Camorra and the more widely known Sicilian Mafia.

Australian-Calabrian Mob Boss Rosario Gangemi Dies « Skid Roche 2008

“Ernest the Apulian, thy dainty Italian wit is caught in a trap,” said one of his companions.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

By availing herself of this courtesy of the young Apulian, Bertha imprudently separated herself from the old Varangian; but the intentions of the youth were honourable, and he conducted her through the tents and huts to the pavilion of the celebrated General-inchief of the Crusade.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

Ponzetti's contemporary, William de Marra, scoffed at the ignorant and ill informed who believed that the tarantula actually sang as it bit, but all classes of Apulian society, from peasant to noblewoman, turned to the tarantella.

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