Tuscany Vegan Vegetarian

Tuscan Legume Cooking: Cicerchie, Ceci and Bean Recipes from the Cucina Povera Tradition

Tuscany, Vegan, Vegetarian

Tuscan cooking is built on legumes in a way that few other regional cuisines in Italy are. Before refrigeration and affordable meat, ceci (chickpeas), cicerchie (grass peas), cannellini, and borlotti beans provided the bulk of protein across the region, particularly in the inland areas away from the coast. This is cucina povera at its most […]

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Trains

How To Travel In Italy By Train

Trains

Italy is a country where choosing the right transport makes a real difference. Renting a car is stressful in historic cities — limited parking, restricted ZTL zones, congestion — and largely unnecessary when the rail network covers the same ground faster. For most travellers moving between cities, trains are the quickest, most comfortable and most

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Bowl of tortellini soup and bread on a dining table with wine and sparkling water.
Bologna Gourmet food tours in Italy

Trattoria Anna Maria Bologna: What to Order and Honest Review

Bologna, Gourmet food tours in Italy

Trattoria Anna Maria sits on Via delle Belle Arti 17/A, a few minutes’ walk from the university quarter. It opened in 1985 and has not changed much since — the walls are covered in framed photographs of Italian celebrities who have eaten here (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lucio Dalla), and the tables are packed close

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Wine tours in Italy Brescia

Berlucchi and the Origins of Franciacorta Sparkling Wine

Wine tours in Italy, Brescia

Berlucchi is the producer most directly responsible for establishing Franciacorta as a serious sparkling wine zone. When Franco Ziliani began working at Guido Berlucchi’s estate in Borgonato in the mid-1950s, Franciacorta produced only unremarkable red wines. The sparkling wine the two men made together — released in 1961 as the first commercially produced traditional-method wine

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