Saturday May 7th – 3pm In Piazza d’Italia, San Vincenzo, the marquee tent will host the second edition of the cooking contest that will crown the best Palamita dish prepared! A panel of expert judges and not only (also those who won the contest regarding their knowledge of palamita) will taste the palamita preparations prepared...
This part of Tuscany bordering with Emilia Romagna has a fantastically built and varied cultural tradition regarding food. Tuscan and Emilian food is known as the best in Italy and in this area you can get the best of both in an interesting combination. We have chosen to translate three video recipes prepared for Vivere...
Testaroli and Panigacci from Lunigiana
Saturday the 7th of May and Sunday the 8th San Vincenzo hosts the tenth edition of “Tutti Pazzi per la Palamita” in italian, “Everyone’s crazy about Palamita”. An important edition with some interesting changes like the presence of an audience panel that together with the expert judge panel will taste and take part in the...
This important event, VIVERE L’APPENNINO, taking place in the two central weekends of May celebrates the Apennines and especially their food and culinary traditions! L’Appennino vien… Mangiando – paraphrased from the famous “l’appetito vien mangiando” apetite comes whilst eating…in this case the event is called the appennine comes from eating Sunday May 8th _ 8...
Batonnage, Blend and Bouquet: fundamental wine glossary
Every month there are farmer’s markets in Tuscany! Here’s a google map that encloses these mini farm heavens where those loving Tuscany, farm life, organic produce, fresh vegetables and fruit will shop well and eat vegs growing the closest as possible. Visualizza Monthly Farmer’s Markets in Tuscany in una mappa di dimensioni maggiori
Walking and Eating Tomorrow the Walking Festival begins in the Tuscan Archipelago it will end on May 8th. This festival takes place throughout five of the archipelago’s islands (not Gorgona or Montecristo). What does food have to do with walking…it’s true that walking makes you hungry, your appetite grows and so on but how about...
Abrostine – italian abrostine A smalll wild grape used to add colour to wine Aftertaste – italian Retrogusto What remains (taste, aromas, etc) after you swallowed wine Ageing – italian Invecchiamento A process in which wine develops its organoleptic characteristics. Albarola – italian Albarola White Grape from the Cinque Terre area in Liguria Alcoholic Fermentation...
In an extremely crowded Pavillion 8, in the exact middle of it, stands the Tuscany Regional booth. This is where I am, at the intersection of bright red carpets that turn into a river of people and finally into a basculating slow stream or rivulet. Every single one of the people making up this homogenous flow is interested in one way or...
A grape bunch of history Known since antiquity as “Liviatico” or “Liatico” this grape varietal of probable greek origins arrives in Elba thanks to the Romans. Centuries later, during the Renaissance, Aleatico wine became popular thanks to Lorenzo ‘de Medici. Even Napoleon appreciated the aromatic components of this sweet wine during his exhile on the...
Tuscany at Vinitaly, the Italian greatest wine event
