Finally, the Pappa Episode is up...Enjoy!!!
Florentine farmers used
to cook this soup using stale bread that was saved
during the week, garlic, tomatoes and basil from
their gardens: this is the most humble dish I know,
well, after boiled white rice...
Now, if you go to a restaurant, the tradition is
slowly disappearing, and it is becoming very hard to
find a good old recipe that works; that's why Deb and
I decided to feature in this first episode two very
dear friends of ours, Rosanna and Matteo. The good
recipes are still secretly hidden into very old
Tuscan homes, like The Farm Pacina, in Castelnuovo
Berardenga, a little town that rests on the
hills between the Chianti Area and Siena.
Pacina was originally an
Etruscan site,
then it became a convent in the nine hundreds and
after eight centuries the property was sold by the
church and became private. Today Pacina is an
Agriturismo and a Yoga retreat, Olive Oil and Wine
are produced and distributed in Tuscany...a place
worth a long weekend!
