Florentine food and Tuscany Gastronomy

Florence and Tuscany : Gastronomy

Florentine food is praised for its solid peasant traditions: It is based on a few fundamental genuine ingredients: olive oil, tomatoes, beans, herbs, ham and salami.

Among the first courses of the "poor style" cuisine worth mentioning are "ribollita" (a soup based on black cabbage, beans, and other vegetables), "bruschette" (toasted bread with garlic and olive oil, sometimes covered with liver pate, anchovy paste or olives), beans "Uccelletta" style (minestrone soup with boiled beans, cooked in oil with tomato sauce and sage).

Among the second courses, the most famous is surely the "beefsteak Florentine style", cooked rare, without salt, flavored with herbs. Among the less noble second courses the most characteristic is "tripe Florentine style," covered with tomato sauce and an abundant sprinkling of grated parmesan cheese.

Game dishes worth mentioning include boar and rabbit with their typical sauces.
The most common cheeses are pecorino and ricotta.

Desserts are simple, in Italian they are called "poor", the most characteristic being "cantucci" (cookies sweetened with almonds, for dunking in "Vin Santo") and "schiacciata Florentine style" (a pastry covered with vanilla sugar and flavored with lemon).

Tuscany is a region famous also for its wines, reds and whites ranging from table wines to wines of great prestige and universal fame. The most famous reds are "Brunello di Montalcino", "Nobile di Montepulciano" and Chianti produced in the hills and bottled by the Sangiovese vineyards. Most of the white wines come from Trebbiano vineyards, like the light and sparkling "Galestro" and the simple "Tuscan white". The "Vernaccia of San Gimignano", obtained from Vernaccia grapes, is very flavorful, as is the "Montecarlo," from the Lucca region. Among the characteristic sweet wines is the "Vin Santo" made with raisins from Trebbiano and Malvasia, aged for several years in small casks and then bottled.

Restaurants

Florence is rich with restaurants, bars and cafes. Sip an espresso in the fashionable cafes of the Piazza della Repubblica, once the site of a Roman forum. Sample delicious Tuscan cuisine in the Oltrarno area and around the Piazza del Mercato Centrale. Head for the bars of the Sant Antonio area

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