“Mr. Palomar's soul oscillates between two contrasting impulses: the one that aims for complete, exhaustive knowledge and is only satisfied when he has sampled all [...]

Until recently, the shepherds of Sardinia carried out various archaic practices as part of their everyday rural lives. The practice of boiling milk in cork [...]

In Sardinia there is a huge variety of Pecorino cheeses, all with different characteristics. One of these Pecorino cheeses is called “Romano” because it was [...]

Sheep in Sardinia have a vast and rich literary history, and classical authors wrote numerous documents on the subject. Sardinians have many different names for [...]

Archestratus of Gela, the first gourmet, believed that the best dessert was prepared with Athenian cheese and Attican honey. Columella (4-70 AD) noted that, “Cheese [...]

The history of Roman Sardinia began in 238 BC and ended in 456 AD with the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Although Rome controlled [...]