Tuscany | another lunch

The lunch on our second day of the educational study tour of Tuscany was just as huge and fantastic as the lunch we had the previous day. This time we enjoyed local dishes at Ristorante Adriano Di Nencini Fabio in Cerreto Guidi. After that we got a guided tour of the Polli factory, and then we drove a lot (again) to have a guided tour and dinner at Castello di Volpaia.

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Tuscany | Campochiarenti

The first visit of day 2 of our educational study tour in Tuscany was Campochiarenti winery near San Gimignano, about halfway between Florence and Siena. After that we visited Streda Belvedere winery and holiday apartments.

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Tuscany | randoms day 1

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Tuscany | Svoltaccarozze, on film

Fuji pro 160S, Olympus mju

After that fantastic lunch we drove to Svoltaccarozze, a winery, restaurant, bed and breakfast in Murlo, 20 km south of Siena. Svoltaccarozze is a lovely family run place, where they among other things grow a lot of their own vegetables for use in the restaurant kitchen.

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Tuscany | lunch

After the visit at Basile we drove to the little village of Civitella Marittima and had a fantastic (huge) lunch at the charming Locanda nel Cassero restaurant. I would love to go back here!





Rivolta del Cassero; deep fried pancake with bacon and farm cheese - a typical dish for this village.


Pici bugiardo; another typical dish of the area. Pici is the name of the pasta. Bugiardo means "liar"; the sauce tastes like chicken, but there is no chicken in it. All families have their own version of the sauce, often based on other types of meat.


Fennel roasted Cinta Senese (a special breed of wild pigs) with roasted potatoes and mashed fennel (I think).


Semifreddo with pavisini biscuits soaked in coffee and mascarpone cheese on top. And of course a cup of espresso (with sugar for me) at the end.

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Tuscany | Basile

The first visit of our educational study tour of Tuscany was the rice producer Serrata Lunga. Then we drove to Basile, an organic winery run by a former lawyer from Naples. Basile is located in a beautiful Tuscan landscape in Maremma, in the Municipality of Cinigiano, about one hour drive from Grosseto.

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Tuscany | food & wine

I have finally sorted through all the photos (digital and film) from my recent trip to Tuscany, Italy. The trip was made on behalf of the Italian Trade Commission as part of their educational study tour program for Italian Flavours and Culture. If you are interested you can read more about the project here. We were four food/wine/travel writers (one of them writes a lovely food blog (in Danish) that I recommend; Miras Matblog) from the Nordic countries that got to visit wineries, food producers, local restaurants and people working with tourism. As mentioned before it was four wonderful yet busy days.

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If you love Italy as much as I do, you might be interested in taking a look in the hei Astrid archives for the rest of my Italy posts + take a look at these Flickr sets: Parma, Florence and Venice, Tuscany and Rome.

everyday stories, week 23

Monday June 6
Civitella Marittima, Tuscany | Hotel Il Borgo di Vescine, Tuscany

Tuesday June 7
Campochiarenti winery, Tuscany | Volpaia, Tuscany

Wednesday June 8
Il Cipresso agriturismo, Tuscany | Vescine winery, Tuscany

Thursday June 9
Florence, Tuscany

Friday June 10
Hotel NH Mörfelden, Frankfurt | waiting for film to develop, Bergen

Saturday June 11
home, Bergen

Sunday June 12
out walking, Isdalen | Sølve's brother's place, Nesttun

PS: Click on each photo to view them bigger | the dinner project 2010, week 23