Holidays in Puglia? If you plan on exploring the heel of Italy’s boot, you should prepare yourself for an extraordinary gastronomic experience with a variety of the Mediterranean’s best products concentrated in one region. To make sure you don’t miss anything, here’s a guide to the 10 foods that you must try (and in some cases buy as a souvenir).

Bread

Let’s start with bread, one of Puglia’s culinary battle horses. The pane di Altamura (literally the bread from Altamura) is the most famous, even though the bread from Monte Sant’Angelo and pretty much all the durum wheat loaves prepared in Puglia are not to be frowned upon.