The Sweet Taste of Sardinia: BA High Life Magazine

The slow-food movement has hit this Italian island with a vengeance. Lucy Cavendish travelled with Just Sardinia and is impressed...‘This is how we feel about our country,’ said our guide. ‘We love it, we protect it and we use everything’.

We spent one night in the Sardinian countryside near a town called Abbasanta, at the truly peaceful Mandra Edera Organic Farm . On arrival, we were greeted by the sight of three beautiful Anglo-Arab horses being ridden through fields by three equally striking Sardinian men. Having driven through the lush grounds, we reached the main farm, which is surrounded by a collection of guest bungalows and a pretty pool....

We had spent the end of our three-day trip driving slowly through the central Sardinian mountain range to a wonderful hotel, Su Gologone, near the town of Oliena. This was as close to the Costa Smeralda as we were going to get and yet it felt rustic, not glitzy.

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A taste of Sardinia by Gordon Ramsay

Sardinia's culinary identity is as diverse as the cultures and civilisations that have left their mark on the island.
"I've just returned from a week's holiday in Sardinia. The thing that really struck me was the diversity of ingredients and style of cooking in different parts of the island. Being ruled by many nations and civilisations has certainly left its mark.
I was told to travel to the interior of the island to discover the original Sardinia, to where the first inhabitants fled to become shepherds, leaving the coastline to invaders. As a consequence there is a dual identity to their cooking, the most obvious being traditional meat-based dishes served inland, leaving fish and seafood to the incomers...."

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