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This is definitely one of the few cases of English language influencing Italian; and even more improbably, Italians […]

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Crostini aren’t unique to Tuscany, but they are certainly prevalent, and play a part of most antipasto plates or menus. I […]

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Typical Autumn Chestnut Cake.
This not-too sweet cake made from chestnut flour developed long ago among poor farmers and […]

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Naples has pizza, Rome has Carbonara. Yes, you can now find Carbonara everywhere in Italy, but it was invented in Rome […]

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This traditional dry crunchy cookie or biscuit has a long narrow shape, with the shape of a slice of bread was originally […]

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Cacio e Pepe is a Roman original which has traveled the length of the boot thanks to its ingenuous use of pantry […]

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These traditional cakes from Lamporecchio, a town near Pistoia, probably only known in Tuscany, are crumbly biscuit […]

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Fava Beans or Broad Beans.
What Tuscans call “baccelli” and Brits call “broad beans” go by “fava beans” in the US or “ […]

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Rome is like an artichoke, tear back one layer, and reveal another. Over the course of the millennia, Romans mastered the […]

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It’s hard to believe coccoli con crudo haven’t travelled outside Tuscany – yet! The near universal appeal is easy to un […]

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Squid and Spinach Stew.
“Inzimino” is the Tuscan dialect for “zimino” stewed spinach or chard
with tomato, it refers […]

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Unsalted Bread.
One of the most interesting Tuscan gastronomic oddities is the so called “pane sciapo” or “pane scioc […]

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Typical Florentine Street Food
Lampredotto is one of the four stomachs of a cow, the fourth to be exact. The name […]

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The Eroica is a bike “race” – depending on the itinerary – which winds its way through attractive landscapes from Gaiole […]

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Tuscany accounts for 45.000 km of the so called “Strade bianche” (“white streets,”) more than any other Italian region. […]

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Sammezzano Castle, surrounded by a large park, is in a spot of great beauty, in Leccio, Municipality of Reggello, […]

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Pistoia has ancient Roman origins, where, in 62 BC the battle between the Roman Senator Catiline and the Roman army took […]

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The Medici Fortress, situated on San Donato Hill, in Arezzo, is an important example of defensive military buildings of […]

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Lucca has ancient origins, and for much of its long history it maintained its autonomy. The stories are, however, […]