We started our Italian Culinary Journey in Florence (see Part 1 here) and then spent a day travelling to Siena, the culinary epicenter of Pecorino Toscano. We were searching for a very specific cheese - Pecorino Foglie di Noce. Outside Italy, Pecorino Romano is the most well-known, but Pliny the Elder wrote about Pecorino Tuscano [...]
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Culinary Journeys – Florence, Italy (Part 1)
Visiting the birthplace of Dante Aligheri, we open with a sonnet,a tribute to Florence, the start of our Italian culinary journey! For I am one acquainted with the flight -I am Milwaukee to Vienna bound,But connection to Florence far too tight, First to Zurich, then to our Tuscan town.Airborne vision - patch-worked fields of green,Swollen [...]
Great Lakes Cuisine 