‘Wine and food tours’
Travel to Tuscany for typical local products and wine tasting
At the table in Massa, Carrara and Lunigiana
La Toscana: Tuscan cooking, Wine and food toursLucchesia is situated between Liguria, Emilia and central Tuscany. This massive province has defended its language, character, traditions and history well. In recent history, the dialect has been influenced by the dialects of Emilia and Tuscany and it would seem that the province has not one spirit but three; the spirit of Massa, the spirit [...]
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La Toscana: English, Lucca, Tuscan cooking, Wine and food toursIn a Tuscany full of different dialects, Lucca makes itself well known, not only due to its dialect or because they have allowed more emigrants in than all the other Tuscan provinces put together. Here, there is a sign of a great moral force and a great need to work, but there is also a [...]
Chiavi: Cooking, typical tuscan food
Continua la lettura | Commenti (0)At the table in Livorno
La Toscana: English, Livorno, Tuscan cooking, Wine and food toursThe cacciucco is the virtue of the livornese kitchen. A popular kitchen, is full of quarrels and different accents. A kitchen creates a paradise land for those who live without a native land. Livorno cacciucco is full of people from every ream. The writer Charles de Brosse said in 1973 that: “It would [...]
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Continua la lettura | Commenti (2)At the table in Grosseto
La Toscana: English, Grosseto, Tuscan cooking, Wine and food toursWhen you come to Maremma, you must prepare yourself for enjoyment from food and allow your eyes to fill up with the anticipation of food. But for a traditional recipe explorer lost in a labyrinth, knowing which way to go, however little selection of paths can be difficult. The leader of a maremmano country recently [...]
Chiavi: Cooking, typical tuscan food
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La Toscana: English, Florence, Tuscan cooking, Wine and food toursWhen in Milan, us Tuscans like to boast about our cuisine. Our gastronomy gives us the voice to say that in Tuscany, if there is no kitchen : it is cooked, not created. That is to say that when they had no kitchen and didn’t know how to cook, originally, they used the most basic [...]
Chiavi: Florence, Tuscan cooking, typical tuscan food
Continua la lettura | Commenti (0)At the table in Arezzo
La Toscana: Arezzo, English, Tuscan cooking, Wine and food toursSome say that Arezzo is the place with the golden goose. But, that is without including its cooking, and its clear economy. No other city in Tuscany, in the past 30 years has made as much progress as Arezzo. Not only has it always had a number of saints in paradise but it is also [...]
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La Toscana: Wine and food toursThere exists a beautiful part of the Maremma, situated to the south of the borders of the provinces of Livorno and Pisa, which must be visited during any trip to this beautiful part of Tuscany. The area in question is a must-see for 3 very good reasons: its wine, pecorino and enchanting towns. The zone [...]
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La Toscana: Wine and food toursThe wine remains in barrels slowly developing its unique aromas. In a region famous for its truly great wines, all around us there are scenes of an incredibly beautiful countryside complete with rich medieval villages and quaint little streets made of stone. And so, in a quest to discover more about these exquisite wines, let’s [...]
Chiavi: brunello montalcino, doc wines, montecucco wines road
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La Toscana: Wine and food toursThe region situated between the River Ombrone and the River Albegna is the producer of an intense red DOC* wine, very pleasant to drink with a dry taste. So, if we go in search of this very appealing red wine we will find ourselves in one of the healthiest parts of the Tuscan Maremma. The [...]
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La Toscana: Wine and food toursThe Vernaccia of San Gimignano is one of oldest white wines of the Italian peninsula with a production and consumption which dates all the way back to the 13th century. The vines used to make the wine (which go by exactly the same name of Vernaccia) grow all around San Gimignano, one of the nicest [...]
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La Toscana: Wine and food toursThe secret is all in the clay. The expression is actually referring to the clay soil found in Valdorcia on which lush fields of grass grow. This grass is noted for the particular taste it gives to the milk produced by the sheep which eat it, milk which is then used to produce the region’s [...]
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Continua la lettura | Commenti (0)Wine streets in Tuscany
La Toscana: Wine and food toursTuscany is one of the most beautiful and colourful Italian regions. Its territory is influenced by the cultural and historic heritage. Tuscany offers to its visitors a high quality hospitality and delicious food and wine. In the territory of Tuscany growth long vineyards which give us excellent wine. Here you will find sweet hills, amazing [...]
Chiavi: Florence
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