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Ferragosto week end: food festivals and markets

by erica on Aug 12, 2011 • View Comments

Ferragosto it’s also an occasion to celebrate the local cusine of some specific areas in Tuscany. The best way to celebrate tuscan local specialities is through a “sagra”: the open space feast dedicated to a special...

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Fritto Misto dell’Aia Recipe

by tuscanycious on Jul 22, 2011 • View Comments

Mixed Fried Meats (from the farmyard) Fritto Misto dell’aia is the name by which on Italian menus you’ll find fried chicken and rabbit. Ingredients Serves 4 1/2 chicken (cut into pieces) 1/2 rabbit (cut into pieces) Olive oil (Extra...

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Panficato del Giglio

by tuscanycious on Jun 13, 2011 • View Comments

Giglio Island Sweet Panficato is a typical sweet from the Island of Giglio. To be more exact it comes from Giglio Castello, the fortified neighbourhood of the island. Here figs and grapes are dried on granite surfaces and underneath the...

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Testaroli and Panigacci from Lunigiana

by tuscanycious on May 2, 2011 • View Comments

Testaroli and Panigacci from Lunigiana

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Schiacciata alla Fiorentina. Tuscan Carnival Cake

by tuscanycious on Jan 30, 2011 • View Comments

Schiacciata alla Fiorentina Recipe Ingredients Serves 6 350g all purpose flour 100g sugar 2 eggs 80 g of olive oil* 80 ml of milk 1 orange – its juice 16 g of vanilla flavored baking powder **...

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Cacciucco alla Livornese Recipe

by tuscanycious on Aug 27, 2010 • View Comments

Cacciucco is a popular traditional seafood dish with a history that stretches back at least five hundred years. Its name probably comes from the Turkish for ‘minute’ which is ‘kuciuk’. This fish stew was first made in Livorno around...

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Lardo di Colonnata

by tuscanycious on Jul 27, 2010 • View Comments

Pic credits Maurobrock | Colonnata In the area of Carrara where Michelangelo used to extract pure, white marble that was also malleable enough for him to let his imagination meet no limits, in this very area the small village of...

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Taking Tuscany on the Road by Judy Witts Francini

by tuscanycious on Jul 13, 2010 • View Comments

Teaching Tuscan cooking in Tuscany is really easy as we have the BEST of all the ingredients. Shopping at the local markets and the places where I have built up a relationship with my...

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Tuscan Street Food in Versilia – Cecina

by tuscanycious on Jul 9, 2010 • View Comments

Versilia is one of Tuscany’s ideal summer destinations! Along the coast there’s a another delicious tuscan street food you can delight yourself with, while you’re at the beach or just walking on the promenade or maybe...

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Tuscan Cooking Class with Divina Cucina

by tuscanycious on Jun 10, 2010 • View Comments

The minute I saw her I felt as if I’d always known her. Judy Witts Francini aka Divina Cucina, is a diva – this however did not keep her her from being close to every single farmer...

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Tuscan Cheese

by tuscanycious on Jun 4, 2010 • View Comments

Tuscan cuisine is also about the richness of its cheeses, there are many cheeses but there’s only one very simple rule you need to know if you don’t want to confused tuscan cheese with other dairy products coming from the rest...

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