fabio may not be from livorno but he can definitely cook a cacciucco. these are ingredients rooted in both the poor fishing community and in livorno 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
tuscany s famous chianina cattle needed lots of land, that was hugely expensive to run. of course, the medici didn t need to worry about that. but why? why the moon? why the sun? 500 years later, thankfully you don t need to be a grand-duke to enjoy steaks this big, and fabio wants to cook for me tuscany s signature dish, the magnificent bistecca alla fiorentina. good. and in case lunch isn t looking worthy enough of, like, ten men, fabio picks out a little
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 a kid and we came here and we tasted the bread and i was like, this is terrible, this is the worst thing i ve ever had in my life. we never got used to it. seeing these basic ingredients here in the city market is one thing but the only way to truly understand tuscan poor food is to get out of the city and go deep into the endlessly beautiful countryside. isn t that kind of amazing when you look around, is that, i mean, you really don t see a contemporary building for miles. look at that. i m following the river arno, 50 miles south of florence, to a
even if there are still 130 or so defunct ones around the city. these little wine windows don t exist anywhere outside of tuscany, another example of renaissance genius. there are too many of them. yeah. and then, completely by chance, we come across another. 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?
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