Trulli Italian pasta cookbook based on the fairy-tale Trulli houses of the region of Apulia in Italy offers authentic, fast, and flavorful one-pot pasta meals for the busy family!

This news release covers my new Italian pasta cookbook "Trulli Italian". On the cover of my cookbook are pictures of the exotically beautiful Trulli houses only found in my Grandfather¡¦s region of Apulia in southern Italy. The title of the cookbook is obviously a play on the English adjective Truly and the Italian word Trulli for the unique beehive cone houses found in Apulia.I am the typical Italian-American father who knows his way around the kitchen with a unique view of how pasta dishes are prepared in Italy as well as how to use American ingredients to quickly prepare authentic Italian condiments and sauces for pasta.

Trulli Italian pasta cookbook based on the fairy-tale Trulli houses of the region of Apulia in Italy offers authentic, fast, and flavorful one-pot pasta meals for the busy family!

Italian-American father Clay Damewood (Pentassuglia) offers a unique pasta cookbook based on his Grandparents region of Apulia in Italy and the exotic fairy-tale-like Trulli houses. Over 90 hand-picked mostly 30-minute recipes, based on Clay¡¦s seven years in Northern and Southern Italy translate the ingredients of Italy to the busy American family lifestyle. Along with the quick and easy recipes the cookbook offers a checklist of utensils and ingredients to stock in the kitchen to make any of the recipes, his family secret to flavoring sauce, and a format to quickly throw meals together. The Trulli houses are included as pictures in the cookbook with captions that explain the culture and history of the Murgia dei Trulli or the special region and village of Cisternino where his Grandparents emigrated from in the early 1900¡¦s.

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Contact: Clay Damewood 410-551-2322
Email: edamewood@cablespeed.com

Trulli Italian

(Severn, MD) „o Cooking like an Italian native and flavoring pasta sauces just became a step easier with Trulli Italian pasta cookbook! Discover the beautiful beehive dome houses of Cisternino Italy and the culture and history of one of the most historically rich regions in Italy. Clay does a great job unveiling this mysterious region of Apulia in the ¡§heel of the Boot¡¨ with pictures and captions describing the local products and different cultural influences on the region through the centuries. (133 pages, $15)

In the Spring of 1976 Clay Damewood (Pentassuglia) was studying in Venice Italy when he embarked on his first visit to his grandfather¡¦s southern Italian village of Cisternino. ¡§This was just before Alex Haley¡¦s Roots struck the American conscience and I wanted to re-discover my Italian roots¡¨ says author Clay. ¡§When the Allied troops during World War II came upon the Valley of Itria on the way to the Adriatic coast, it was like discovering a fairy-tale land. .The Trulli houses (Trullo singular) are national monuments in Italy. In Clay¡¦s cookbook he features photos of his Grandfather¡¦s birthplace and the surrounding area that is rich in Mediterranean vegetation and produce. ¡§I discovered how very unique the Trulli houses are and I encountered a very hearty peasant cuisine based on locally grown vegetables and legumes¡¨. ¡§I learned from my Italian cousins how to use the fresh produce to make tasty condiments for pasta dishes as well as one secret which will always make your pasta dishes more flavorful.¡¨ On the cultural and historical side Clay states that the Trulli houses origins are unknown and could go back as far as the Neolithic era in history but could also be Greek in origin when the region of Apulia (Puglia in Italian) was a part of Magna Grecia and later the eastern Byzantine empire.
¡§I wanted to produce a cookbook with simple authentic recipes that are easily translatable to the American kitchen and at the same time expose the public to the exotically remote and beautiful region of Apulia.¡¨