about tuscany where the host heads out to the spectacular hills and tells you how the mediterranean sun has blessed the tuscan vineyards for 3000 years. they may even have a thoughtful sip of a world famous tuscan wine like chianti classico. but i m not going to do that. i m going on a good old fashioned bar crawl. and when i say old fashioned , i mean, like, the renaissance. i m going to meet a friend of mine, elisabetta, who is a renaissance scholar. she s incredibly boring, but we ll make it through. my god, i can t believe you came. hi. how are you? how are you? good to see you. nice to see you too. this little bar has just reintroduced a 500-year-old tradition.
oh, my god. these are ingredients rooted in, both, the poor fishing community and in liverno s immigrant past. it s a part of tuscany s history on a plate. and fabio s not finished. in true tuscan tradition, creativity is everything and nothing goes to waste so he wins up a second course with the leftover sauce. have all the flavors of the sea. otherwise, what would you do with that beautiful sauce that he had left? it only makes sense. best thing in the world. i feel very lucky my parents followed their hearts and moved
you know? really, it s like a christmas in your mouth. yeah, wow. well, you re great cooks. over the centuries, the food of the working people here in the tuscan countryside developed into its own cuisine. it s not as showy as the food in florence but it s one that is just as glorious as the landscape from which it comes. [laughs]
but the sign would be from when? that sign. the little doors of paradise. paradise, yeah. hi, hi, there you are again. hi, how are you? thank you so much. to end of the evening we head off for tuscany s favorite nightcap. the local dessert wine vin santo, the holy wine. it s called vin santo because when you drink it, a halo.
these type of beans are solid but you don t need to put in the water before cooking. oh really? and they taste so. you don t have to soak them beforehand? no, that s the difference. it means the florentines eat the beans. the bean eaters. yeah, because we are using so many different oh no, now you re going to mix them all up. [laughs] the cooking is really, very poor, simple cooking. that s true. i read that during the renaissance the wealthier people would have meat. whereas the poorer people basically just had beans, some kind of soup and some bread and that was it. i have to say, we use what we have. it says something about the character of the tuscany people. we have tuscan bread without salt. i know, i remember when i was