Polesine Parmense, Antica Corte Pallovicina

The Castle at dusk.
Inside the courtyard with peacocks. The glass room is the dining room.
One of the sitting rooms on the first floor. The paintings are from the 1700's. There are 4 rooms and the paintings are different in each.

This is the ceiling in the castle.

Pictures of the Nov 1 Festa. Fire in streets.


Peppe Zullo and Chef Antonio getting ready to do a TV demo. Thats a nice hat Antonio has on.
Orsara di Puglia.

A 160lb wild boar, waiting to be come porcetta.

The Boar de-boned.
Biaggo and Alasio hamming it up for the camera, the boar is seasoned with white wine, fennel tops, rosemary, thyme, salt, blackpepper, and extra virgin olive oil. It then tied up and roastedin the wood oven for about 6 hours.

A slab of Lardo. Pork back fat that is cured in salt for 5 days, rinsed, dried for a day, then seasoned. It melts in your mouth literally.

This is what the porcetta looks like when it finished cooking.

Wild Broccoli rabe, they use the leaves of the plant.

Fresh bread with prosciutto and arugula.
The school house at Villa Jamele
Fresh Mozzarella, Fresh Ricotta with arugula

This bread is some of the best bread I've ever had if not the best. It's made in Orsara in a wood oven thats 500 years old. Each loaf weighs about 5 lbs.

Inside the wine cellar

An old movie projector.
A painting by the Maestro.

Making tomato sauce the old fashioned way. Made about 30 gallons of tomato sauce on this day. They jar it hot with a few basil leaves, then wrap the jars in a table cloth and let it "sleep" for about 2 weeks before they use it.
The wine cellar in the restaurant.
One of the dining rooms in the restaurant.

the al fornoin the dining room.

Caciocavallo cheese hanging in the a room in the cellar. It's has a hard rind, but the texture is like Fontina. Very good
Pancetta hanging in the cellar.

Pecorino cheese!

The Kitchen! Notice the wood oven on the right.

The wine cellar.

The entrance to wine cellar. The kitchen entrance is on the left and on the right is an herb garden with thyme, arugula, mint, tarragon, and rosemary.

Semillon grapes grown at Paradiso.
A chandelier in the dining room.

Welcome to Paradise

These pictures are of Nuova Sala Paradiso which is home to Peppe Zullo, his 25 year old restaurant and his elegant dining hall which hosts small parties and weddings. Paradiso is also home of the wine making facility, and wine cellar.

Welcome to Paradise

The Dining Hall at Paradiso

The main driveway at Paradiso facing Orsara.

Steps that lead up to guestrooms. There is an archway with a waterfall behind it. The archway is made up of stones from a 500 year old castle from a near by town.

View from the guestrooms overlooking Paradiso. The wine cellar is underneath the vineyard, with the sky lights offering daylight down into it.

An olive tree at Paradiso.