Sardinian cuisine…a celebration of traditional tastes and music of Italy

Sardinian cuisine have a rightful place in the typically Mediterranean gastronomic tradition. Extra virgin olive oil, white meats and fish that is rich in the good, polyunsaturated variety: lamb, kid, mutton, lean pork, oily fish, molluscs and shellfish, are predominantly tasted in a Sardinian food fare.

The flavours, that have little to do with nutrients and calories, but make everything pleasing to the palate are entirely natural: wild oregano and fennel, garlic, bay leaves and indeed Sardinian dishes are exquisite to eat and healthful to the whole body.

Flavoursome, fragrant and gastronomic explosion - these are the first words that come to mind when thinking of Sardinia's foods presented by chef Riccardo from Italy. And the dishes laid out along with Sardinian music at MLH will exalt an explosion of flavours going from its fertile plains to the blue seas, the rugged mountain pastures and the fragrant marquis, and mostly a sensory explosion. Sardinian recipes speak of old style, familiar, humble yet rich fare that in some cases has not changed over centuries.

At MLH the Sardinian Food Fare will surface ancient cuisine which is extraordinarily modern with its hearty soups that make one-dish meals, the lamb and pork stews with vegetables that combine the main and side dishes, and the seafoods like Cassola - soup and main course all in one. As the GM of MLH states,"Sardinian recipes on 24th August at the Governors Restaurant, Mount Lavinia Hotel will not only give elegance of simplicity, but all the refinement of wholesomeness.

And that is not all, the music of Sardinia is probably the most culturally distinct of all the regions in Italy, yes we have that too on the 24th." Musically Sardinia, is best known for the tenore polyphonic chant, sacred songs called gosos, and the launeddas, an ancient instrument that consists of a set of three single-reed pipes, all three mouth-blown simultaneously using circular breathing, with two chanters and one drone.