Sketches of Life in Tuscany – by annie adair

real tuscan life. in the villages, fields… and kitchen.

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April 30, 2020May 18, 2020 annie adair

Ragù. What’s a Ragù to you?

April 30, 2020April 30, 2020 annie adair

Bechamel: a white sauce of many names.

April 4, 2020April 29, 2020 annie adair

Life in Tuscany in the Age of Coronavirus

April 4, 2020May 18, 2020 annie adair

The Secret of Tuscan Home-Cooking: Battuto

February 13, 2018February 13, 2018 annie adair

Carnevale… enlivening the Tuscan winter.

October 15, 2017 annie adair

Good morning!

September 18, 2017 annie adair

A view that never ceases to amaze…

September 17, 2017September 18, 2017 annie adair

Truffles, Dogs, Friends, Good Food & Great Fun

September 7, 2017May 12, 2020 annie adair

Blackberries and Oregano

March 31, 2014March 31, 2014 annie adair

Volterra’s Roman Theater & Baths in Spring

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Pinch me... This can't be real... but it is. Francesco and I are on a research trip planning an unedited itinerary for the REAL "undiscovered Tuscany". If a day like this with dips in the crystalline Mediterranean, hikes between the ruins of 11th c. monasteries, Etruscan tombs hidden in the woods, Roman temples, Etruscan walls and a cliff-top Medieval fortresswith views of the island of Elba can all be done in an easy day's hike that ends with a glass of incredible biodynamic wine and a stroll in good company through a tiny farm resort with breathtaking views, and I can call this work, then.... BRING IT ON!
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Candied violets and doughnuts... Today I've dedicated myself to sugar-coating the beautiful and the gluttonous. Pure hedonism on a cold, windy spring day.
It still amazes me how much you can discover on a walk around Volterra... this morning I walked down to the cemetery of the ex-psychiatric institute where those who passed away without their families requesting a funeral were buried. Notwithstanding the sadness of the circumstances, a beautiful place. Walking back up the hill I found what must have been an Etruscan tomb on the side of the road, and the elegantly solitary convent of San Girolamo (fitting for a hermit like St. Jerome). Just minutes from Volterra... So much to see.
Sunflowers. The contrast of Tim Burton-esque figures with an idyllic Tuscan field in the background, both Gothic and bucolic.
Lunch.
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