The signature holiday dish of Napoli
Meet Papaccelle peppers, the newest addition to the collection of Maida vegetables in extra virgin olive oil. Papaccelle is an heirloom pepper variety local to the …
Tomatoes From Campania
Among the precious heirloom seeds and rare local varieties of Campania, Corbarino and Piennolo tomatoes shine out. They are flavor gems, so there’s only one rule for getting the …
The Chili Peppers You Can’t Live Without
Maida Chili Peppers. You’ve been beating down our doors asking for this product. It’s the new harvest of Maida chili peppers, just picked in the …
Yellow Tomatoes
Yellow Tomatoes are here! Maida’s Small Yellow Tomatoes are whole, with their skins, and jarred in yellow tomato juice. These yellow tomatoes are true heirloom tomatoes. They …
The New York Times Small Artichokes
The perfect Negroni accompaniment according to the New York Times is Maida’s Small Artichokes. That’s right, our artichokes are the ultimate aperitivo food. As Florence …
Maida Artichokes in the New York Times
Ask anyone in Italy who is passionate about good sott’oli and they will say the name Maida. Francesco Vastola of Maida Farm is THE AUTHORITY …
The Best Pizza Tomatoes with Anthony Mangieri On Vice
Gustiamo loves Anthony Mangieri. Gustiamo has been importing the best tomatoes for pizza for just about as long as Anthony has been making pizza. That, paired …
Greetings From Artichoke Season In Italy
SMALL ARTICHOKES Spring is artichoke season in Cilento National Park, the countryside south of Naples, and we just received a shipment of Small Artichokes, fresh from the field. …
Pasta with Caperberries, Hake, and Sun Dried Tomatoes
Gustiamo is on a caperberry kick. We can’t stop cooking with them; we’ve been adding caperberries to just about everything lately. When our friend, Chef Silvia …
Piccante is Italian for Spicy.
We’d like to introduce you to: Chili Peppers in Extra Virgin Olive Oil, made by Francesco Vastola on Maida Farm. They are red-hot and full of flavor. These …
When Your Recipe Calls For Black Olives
Here they are! Right off the shipping pallet, just in from Italy. They are wonderfully savory black olives from Campania. This is Farmer Francesco Vastola, …
Stacey Snacks with Tomatoes and Anchovies
We first met Stacey of Stacey Snacks at a pizza place! Where else? This lady loves good pizza almost as much as we do. The pizza …
NYTimes in Ischia, Eating Gustiamo
Did you read Julia Moskin’s “In Ischia, Italy, Cooking Is Done in the Sand, Not the Stove” in the NYTimes? Weren’t you literally salivating by …
Maida Corbarino Tomatoes in Ciao Chow Linda’s Blog
Yep, you read that correctly. Click here and see for yourself. Summertime food is life, and Linda knows it. Her recipe for pasta with mussels is an …
Padre e Figlio, Father & Son Team. Order TODAY for Father’s Day!
Look at Fabrizio, isn’t he a handsome young man? We first met Fabrizio when he was about 15 years old. Since then, we’ve had the …
Vegetable Adventures around Naples
We were just in Campania. Did you follow our adventures? Pizza Napoletana, buffalo paradise, anchovy everything in Cetara; just to name a few highlights. The whole trip was …
Vannulo, La Decrescita Felice, and Happy Buffalo
The first thing Beatrice told me after our visit with Antonio Palmieri was that if she were born a buffalo, she would want to be a buffalo …
On Maida Farm
March on Maida farm: the broccoli harvest just finished and spring is coming. Francesco and Fabrizio Vastola are hard at work. Soon it will be summer …
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