Tuscan cookery
Eating and drinking
Well known all over the world, Italian Cooking is without doubt an important side of Italian Culture, and a travel in Italy represent the right time, not only to have an in-depth knowledge of art ad monuments, but also to taste traditions through dishes of Italian Cuisine.
Italian Cooking has ancient origin and traditions, to handed down during centuries by the rural families. It is a genuine cooking, healthy and nourishing, rich in natural ingredients like vegetables, pulses that well-matches with pasta dishes or with meat and fish, in addiction to cheese and dessert.
The Italian Cuisine is the base of the Mediterranean Diet, with pasta, vegetables, fruit, fish and above all the Oil of Olive, which is the main resource of fat, which is also efficacious against arteriosclerosis and infarction.
Tuscan cookery is the sum of both features of Italian Cuisine and Mediterranean Diet, it's a poor cookery with simple ingredients. One of the most important is the Tuscan bread made in many shapes and without salt, because once, salt was expensive.
A healthy diet is essential for those who practise sport, to mantein a right balance between burned calories and those absorbed, for that reason an holiday in Tuscany could be the right time to practise sport like Golf, cycling , jogging, tennis and trekking, and at the same time restore your's strength with carbohydrates and protein of the Tuscan cuisine.
In the Italian and tuscan cookery, wine represent more than a simple drink. In the vineyards on the Tuscan hills are produced the most famous wine of Italy like chianti, Brunello di Montalcino, Morellino di Scansano and much more.
