The restaurant at Masseria Limbitello

Typical Salento products, known for their excellent taste and natural processing, are olive oil and wine (the much-praised "merum" of Horace). Salento cuisine makes extensive use of local olive oil, highly authentic and obtained, in most cases, through cold pressing that preserves nutritional and vitamin properties intact. Recipes such as orecchiette made fresh with turnip greens and fava bean puree, spaghetti with garlic, oil and chili pepper have become very fashionable in recent years. Typical dishes from the ancient Salento farming tradition are beginning to be rediscovered—light dishes made with the use of vegetables and local products. All products are cultivated through the hard work of farmers who, reluctant to use excessive pesticides, pursue organic agriculture.