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