• Les Brigidini

    Ces friandises typiques de Lamporecchio, un village près de Pistoia, probablement connues seulement en Toscane, sont des gaufres très friables ayant la caractéristique saveur d’anis, et elles sont toujours présentes aux foires et fêtes de village sur les bancs des marchands de friandises. La légende dit que la recette fut read more

  • Baccelli or fave

    This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Fava Beans or Broad Beans. What Tuscans call “baccelli” and Brits call “broad beans” go by “fava beans” in the US or “fave” in much of Italy. Throughout Tuscany these big, broad, bright green pods read more

  • Artichokes

    This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Rome is like an artichoke, tear back one layer, and reveal another. Over the course of the millennia, Romans mastered the art of the artichoke. Carciofi alla Romana are available in grocery stores and delis read more

  • Sepia Inzimino

    This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Squid and Spinach Stew. “Inzimino” is the Tuscan dialect for “zimino” stewed spinach or chard with tomato, it refers both to the cooking method and the ingredients, most often encountered in sepia inzimino with stewed read more

  • Pane Sciocco

    This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Unsalted Bread. One of the most interesting Tuscan gastronomic oddities is the so called “pane sciapo” or “pane sciocco”, which means insipid bread, bread baked without salt. A couple of theories try to explain the read more

  • LE SANDWICH AU LAMPREDOTTO

    Le lampredotto est l’un des quatre estomacs des bovins, la caillette. Le nom lampredotto vient de sa ressemblance avec la bouche d’un poisson, la lamproie (lampreda en italien), une espèce d’anguille qui dans le passé se trouvait dans le fleuve Arno. Il y a beaucoup d’histoires sur la naissance du read more

  • Carbonara

    Naples has pizza, Rome has Carbonara. Yes, you can now find Carbonara everywhere in Italy, but it was invented in Rome and it is at its best here. The now-classic combination only came to be in the years following World War II, yet somehow this recent creation has captured the read more

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