Category Archives: Beans

La cucina di Salvatore

May 29, 2012
La cucina di Salvatore. . . a whole new repertoire of very beany spring dishes. . . .Read More
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Springing for Fave

May 17, 2011
tpringtime snack:When people ask what’s the best time to come to Tuscany, I usually answer: In the fall. That’s when the weather is glorious, warm days, cool nights, lots of golden sunshine, markets filled with autumn produce, new wine bubbling in its casks, woods filled with wild mushroom foragers and truffle hunters, and olive farmers spreading Read More
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New Year’s Day luck

January 1, 2011
January 1, 2011 (1/1/11) I’m a bookworm at heart, my mother always said so. Give me a good book, fiction or not, and I’m lost in another world, absorbed in the lives of strangers and gone until the final page is turned. Which is what makes me a terrible cook. Because I can sit in Read More
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Ribollita for the Olive Harvest

October 25, 2010
Friends who are vegetarians are arriving next week to help with the olive harvest and I’ve been trying to come up with hearty, filling, main-course vegetarian dishes that will not mean a diet of beans-beans-beans. Here in Tuscany, even though most people don’t eat a lot of meat (despite the fame of porchetta and T-bone Read More
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  • Tuscany Spring 2013 AmorOlio

    March 25 – 31 and April 22 – 28, 2013, at Villa Campestri, the world’s only olive oil resort located in the hills above Tuscany’s Mugello valley just half an hour north of Florence. READ HERE

  • TUSCANY AUTUMN 2013: AMOROLIO

    OCTOBER 21 – 27 Plans are shaping up for our autumn AmorOlio program, October 21 to 27, 2013, at Villa Campestri (“the world’s only olive oil resort”), in the hills above Tuscany’s Mugello valley just half an hour north of Florence. READ HERE

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