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Panzanella INGREDIENTS 5 cups stale bread 1 lb. Roma tomatoes, chopped and drained 1¼ cups peeled and diced cucumber 1 cup fresh basil ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil 2 T. red wine vinegar 1 tsp. sea salt ½ tsp. black pepper Basil leaves for garnish DIRECTIONS Put the stale bread in a medium bowl, add [...]

Cantucci Siriana Fumi teaches a master class for Tuscan Women Cook, a cooking school based in Montefollonico, and her cantucci is a favorite. Cantucci is a Tuscan almond biscotti (meaning “twice cooked”). Cantucci is traditionally served with vin santo and dipped into the drink for a delightfully sweet and crunchy dessert. You can make these [...]

Carolina’s Pici Pasta Carolina makes delicious pici pasta based on her grandmother’s recipe. This rustic pasta is like a thick spaghetti and provides a filling dish. Italian “00” flour is a very refined flour, while “0” flour is less refined, most like all-purpose flour. I NGREDIENTS 2½ cups Italian “00” flour 1½ cups + 3 [...]

If winter is a season of Sabbath, I can think of no better recipe than the comforting goodness of ribollita soup. Ribollita translated means “reboiled,” and it is a wonderful way of using stale bread for a delicious soup that becomes even thicker and creamier after a day or two. After tasting the combination of [...]

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I think about my own life, and even the reason we are in Tuscany. It was partly so I could research and work on a book for a couple of weeks, but it was also because I was bone-tired, body, mind, and spirit. Weary with grief, overworked, pulled between an aging mother and other family [...]

The four C's of fruit desserts: Cobbler, Crumble, Crisp, and Crunch! Confession: I have been a little confused by the differences in a cobbler, crumble or crisp! Even crunch, which is apparently another name for a crisp. One thing they all have in common are these ingredients: flour, sugar, butter and fruit. The [...]

This may seem like a very simple dish, hardly worthy of a recipe, but there are so many choices you can make to dress this dish up for any party or dinner, I thought it would be fun to include. Jess' Sliced Tomatoes Tomato Sea Salt Olive Oil Basil leaves (optional) Instructions: First, [...]