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Lardo di Colonnata PGI
Production, consumption and the culture of “Lardo di Colonnata” have always been linked to the work and life of quarrymen. In order to produce “Lardo di Colonnata” cuts from the fatty tissue from the animal’s back stretching from the occipital region to the rump and laterally to the belly are used. The principal characteristics of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Pecorino Toscano PDO “Pecorino Toscano” PDO is made from whole sheep’s milk and veal rennet. The paste is subjected to cooking and breaking until curd granules form that vary in size from that of a kernel of corn for “semi-hard” paste to the size of a hazelnut for “soft”. Then it is pressed and salted before being matured [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode # 17 “Doccia” Antiques in Colonnata Mr. Giorgio Gori leads his antiques activity since he stopped to work as a bank employée. The reason why he shows us his little precious antiques shop called “Doccia” is his true passion for ceramics, majolics and porcelains wares. His love for these handcrafts comes from the place where he lives, Colonnata in the Sesto [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Vitellone Bianco dell’Appennino Centrale PGI Over time, the term ‘Vitellone Bianco dell’Appennino Centrale’ has come to indicate a single “type” of animal belonging to the Chinina, Marchigiana and Romagnola breeds and which is characterized by similarities with regard to morphology and productive performance. Initially used for working the fields, these animals were later selected as specialized, quality meat-producing breeds. Typicity [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Prosciutto Toscano PDO In Tuscany a rather unique sort of pork breeding has evolved over time: the raising of largely grazed sows to give birth to piglets for fattening elsewhere. Also the original organoleptic characteristics of the hams and cured meats typical of rural production have become famous, giving rise to numerous small, artisan operations where the quality [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Garfagnana Emmer PDOEmmer (Triticum dicoccum) is the oldest grain to reach our times. Due to dietary changes and the consequential elimination of so-called “poor” foods from the diet, emmer began to disappear toward the end of the 19th century, but in Garfagnana it continued to be produced (also in notable quantities) as it was a product of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Lunigiana Honey DOP There are numerous historical references to the origin of Miele della Lunigiana PGI and its close ties to the territory, for example the considerable importance and specialization of beekeeping in Lunigiana, the centuries-old tradition of using honey in the local gastronomy, the use of products (such as medicines) derived from beekeeping, and the local tradition [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Sorana Bean PGI With this video TP.tv begins to publish a series of videos about typical tuscan agricultural products realized for ARSIA.TV, official podcasts of tuscan agricultural agency.
The ecotype for this bean, which over the centuries has been selected in the small valley of the Pescia river (in the province of Pistoia), is milky white or wine red [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode # 16 The coulors of Siena: the pink The restoration of the facade of the Duomo in Siena, concluded 30 November 2006 showcases the latest innovations regarding the history of facade restoration in Italy. Beginning in the Spring of 2004, initially as a conservational intervention to limit the decay of the marble statues on the facade, the restoration transformed into a project to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode # 15 The coulors of Siena: the blue “Sky drops” is an installation in the Courtyard of Palazzo Pubblico inspired to Klee.
Traditional Christmas installation of the Special Tree by Bambimus, Art Museum for children, which, as from 1998, presents the city with a Christmas tree dedicated to children.
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Episode # 14 Sketches from La Verna Sanctuary They say that this winter in Italy is the hottest since more than one hundred years. As you can see in this new video the sun shines on also in La Verna Sanctuary, in the middle of Casentino woods, where Saint Francis of Assisi established in 1200 century living here with his companions in [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Video Recipe # 16 - TortelliniFor Christmas Eve dinner, as every year, Anna Grazia prepares the Tortellini, a typical recipe from Modena, the city where she was bornThe preparation is difficult but is a moment where all the family is involved and this dish is crucial in Christmas dinnerGrazia choose all first class ingredients, from fresh eggs to local meat.Home [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Video Recipe # 15 Panello con l’UvaThe “panello con l’uva” (grapes cake) is a tuscan country traditional dessert that is prepared during grapes gather time.Each family has its own recipe and keep a secret about ingredients and baking methods they use. But what is really important for a good outcome is the choice of the grapes. Simone loves to use [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode # 13 Pressing the Grapes Ten days after grape gathering the must in the tubs slackens thw boiling. Beppe press the remaining grapes and, with Cesare and Felice, decants wine in other tubs or other little recipients depending on the particular wine he wants to get. This is the first step to produce a good Chianti wine. It is in [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode # 12 Grape Gathering in Chianti Within the end of September and the beginning of October Beppe gathers the grapes of his little vineyard of Chianti DOC wine in Laterina, that he grows from years after the manner of old tuscan country-folk.
The harvest, that produces about one ton of grapes, is made with simple means and with the helping hands [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode # 11 Anghiari Anghiari is a lovely medieval town lying between two rivers, the Tiber and the Arno. The powerful thirteenth century walls made the town an invincible fortress which constituted an important reference point and kept the Tuscan flag flying during the many historical events that occurred in this delicately balanced border area. On the 29th [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode # 10 Lilia’s Rural Paradise: Picking Fruits It’s harvest time in Lilia’s little rural paradise. In the first week of September, when we filmed this video, I was stunned by the incredible quantity of peaches in the trees, white and yellow pulp varieties. Visiting the garden in this seasons means to live an olfactory experience. We are talking about biodiversity scents: Lilia’s [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode # 9 Castiglione della PescaiaCastiglione della Pescaia is a tourist place with a stunning medieval castle just above the sea side. It is one of the most visited places in Maremma due to the quality of the clean water. From June to September Castiglione is a bathing center with tourists from all over Italy and Europe. The [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode # 8 Fosdinovo I arrived in Fosdinovo coming from Fivizzano: suddenly the castle of Fosdinovo stands in front of me as if it were emerging from a sea of green and blue, covered by the sunny fog of early summer afternoon. The castle is still a private property of Malaspina power family that since XIII century builded [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode # 7 Mulazzo Mulazzo is a village in high Lunigiana, a territory of hills and mountains that is maybe the wildest in all Tuscany region. Lunigiana is a valley at the borders with Emilia Romagna and Liguria along the course of the river Magra. Mulazzo is encircled from the Appennines and the Apuane Alps and, despite its [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode # 6 Lilia’s Rural Paradise: The Garden in July The secret of Lilia’s garden is Lilia herself and the way she loves it. I walked for the first time to her little rural paradise last january. By that time the garden was sleeping and other visits followed since then because I was so interested in showing in our videos the season cycle of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode # 5 Capalbio A hot sunny afternoon in the wild Maremma leads me to Capalbio, a litlle XII century village sited on low hills approaching to the Costa d’Argento seaside. This village is well known in the italian gossip newspapers because it is often visited by many famous italian politicians, tycoons, showmen and tv personalities.
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Episode # 4 The Ancient City of “Cosa” Summer in Tuscany is ideal for archeological tourism. The area of Grosseto is rich of roman and etruscan ruins: among them Cosa, near Ansedonia, is a must to see. The town of Cosa stands on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea on a rocky headland (114 m above sea level), that in past ages had [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode # 3 The Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa Landscape Ponte a Buriano is the Romanesque bridge along the Setteponti Road represented on the background of Mona Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci. Somone says this is a legend but here everyone you speak with is quite sure: that’s it. The background of the Mona Lisa is a landscape that in effect is very similar to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode # 2 Florence: Sonic Garden La Limonia dell’Imperialino Sonic garden is an in progress electroacoustical botanical installation by the environmental design team Giardino Sonoro based in Florence at the Limonaia dell’Imperalino. The team leaders are Lorenzo Brusci, musician and sound designer, and Stefano Passerotti, garden designer. Lorenzo is a long time friend and when I met him a few months ago he invited [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode # 1 Lilia’s Rural Paradise: The Garden in May Here I’m am again in Lilia’s Rural Paradise: a guardian of old time agricultural traditions of Tuscany. You can’t understand our culture without meeting people like her.
May and June are the months of the year in wich Lilia enjoys the most her garden with the fruit trees and the vegetables that, after the flowering, start [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Video recipe # 14 - Panzanella Panzanella
Ingredients
500 gr. of day old Tuscan-style bread, 2 pieces of celery, 2 onions, one tomato, some fresh basil leaves, 200 ml of extra virgin olive oil, 2 tablespoons of red wine vinegar, salt and pepper.
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Slice 1/2 kg. of old day Tuscan-style bread. Submerge the slices in [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 89 # Pinetum Park Pinetum Park is located at an altitude of 536 mts above the see along the road between Moncioni and Ucerano. It was created as an experimental wood in 1850 by the lawyer G. Gaeta, who subsequently in 1893 wrote a monograph on the subject, under the title “Conifers”.
Since 1998 it Pinetum was listed under protected [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show # 88 - A Joiner in San SanoAnother windy day with overcast sky in Chianti.The dirt road this time leads us to San Sano, an ancient an distant rural village close to Cassia Vetus road. This village was abandoned after the last war and has been recently rediscovered by English and French. Here we met 80 years old Giuseppe: 40 years ago, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show # 87 - Saturday Morning in Semplici’s Confectionery Andrea Semplici run the “Semplici Confectionery” in San Giovanni Valdarno with his son and his wife. Andrea inherited this activity from his father keeping on a long time tradion of Sienese artisan confectionery.
Besides to seasonal preparations or for special events (i.e. Panettone and Panforte for Christmas Eve, Colomba for Easter) Andrea prepare every day fresh [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show 86 - Olive Tree Pruning in Poggio CucculeIt’s springtime in Chianti and countrymen are pruning their olive trees.The new branches, also called “succioni”, are pruned to strenght the old ones and increase the plant’s productivity.Usually the branches are cutted and burned in place.quicktime – 16,5 mb ¦ wmv – 10,6 mbGoogle MapsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show # 85: Colle Val D’Elsa: Vilca CrystalwareCristal Ware has always been the main productive field of Colle Val d’Elsa, but only a few today still follows artisan procedures: “Vilca” is one of them. From 1947 the Brogi brothers, Franco and Mario, expressed themselves with glass ware around Europe and in 1962 they founded Vilca in theyrcountry of origin. After eighties [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Video Recipe # 13 - Stuffed Artichokes Stuffed Artichokes
Ingredients
5 artichokes, 50 grams of Parmesan Cheese (Parmigiano Reggiano), a few parsley and garlic, 100 grams of bread crumbs, olive oil, salt, pepper.
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For the stuffing: chop parsley and garlic finely and add it to the bread crumbs. Grate 50 gr. parmesan cheese over the mixture [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show # 84 - The Brolio CastleThis castle, which dates back to the early Middle Ages, stands on the border between the towns of Gaiole and Castelnuovo Berardenga and was remodelled in the early 19th century. The name, which derives from the Longobard term brolo, referred to an orchard or any similar kind of enclosed garden space. Owned by the Ricasoli [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show # 83 - VagliagliVagliagli è un piccolo paese situato al centro del Chianti.Non dotato di particolari rilevanze architettoniche, è situato però in una posizione da cui si puo’ dominare tutto il chianti senese, godendo di un panorama senza eguali.Da Vagliagli partono molte strade bianche che conducono ad agriturismi e fattorie tra le più importanti di tutto il [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show # 82 - Florence: Loggia dei Lanzi The Loggia dei Lanzi is on the corner of the Piazza della Signoria next to the Uffizi Gallery. Standing on the left is Benvenuto Cellini’s bronze statue of the Greek Hero Perseo holding the Medusa’s head in his hand, whilst Gian Bologna’s famous Rape of the Sabine Women is on the right. You can see [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show # 81 - Siena: L’Orto de’ Pecci L’Orto de’ Pecci is in the former psychiatric hospital area in Siena and is a green oasis just underneath Piazza del Campo. A dirt path crosses the garden where a co-operative society has maintained it as it always was. You can relax here, play football, have a lunch at the little restaurant inside the garden [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show # 80 - Siena: Urban Trekking pt.1 Urban trekking is a sport that in Siena is ideal to get to know on foot the beauty of this city. This itinerary starts from the Orti dei Tolomei from where you have a nice view on the city and proceed passing under the Arco di San Giuseppe and walking through Via Duprè, in the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show # 79 - Typical Food Productions in Greve in ChiantiThe Falorni is an ancient family of butchers that from 1700 lead his activity, in the same place under the arches of Piazza Matteotti in Greve in Chianti. They produce salami, ham, sausages from sienese pigs, wild boar and chianina beef that has become famous in the world expecially thanks to the uncommon commercial [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show # 78 - Sketches of Florence Florence: a late february work-day morning. This is a walk that starts from Via della Vigna Nuova passing by the Ponte alla Carraia and Borgo Ognissanti and that arrives in Via della Scala, near the railway station of Santa Maria Novella. While Via della Vigna Vecchia is, together with Via Tornabuoni, the heart of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show # 77 - Greve in Chianti Greve in Chianti is the main wine production center in the florentine chianti area. Greve is still a rural town but last twenty years wine tourism escalation has changed the habits of people that live here and somehow it forced the local culture to meet tourist’s needs and expectations. This video was shooted in [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Video Recipe # 12 - Tripe Florentine Style (Trippa alla Fiorentina) Tripe, no matter how it is cooked (boiled and cold, with meat sauce, with tomato sauce) is an ordinary dish in Tuscany and expecially in Florence were you can find everywhere kiosks that serve tripe cooked in many ways. Tripe is usually eated at lunch in the families or as a take away at the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show # 76 - Scarlett Cherry: A Poem of Montozzi Scarlett Cherry is an english artist who lives at Montozzi. In an earlier post we showed you her home and her beautiful silky wall hangings. Scarlett is also a poet and in this video she is reading us one of her most evocative poems inspired and written immediately after her first visit to Montozzi. [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show # 75 - Early Morning by the Ancient Walls of Lucca In this video you can see the ancient city walls built in the twelfth century by feudal land lords to protects their palaces in the city. These medieval walls were then protected by a moat, and today, unchanged by the passing of time, are where the people of Lucca enjoy walking and early morning [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Video Recipe # 11 - Russian Salad (Insalata Russa) The so-called Russian salad is a typical tuscan recipe that became very fashionable in the world expecially for dinner parties. You can use whatever concoctions you like for the preparation depending on the vegetables in season you can dispose of. It is very important not to use commercial mayonnaise sauce. You’ll have great results with [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show # 74 - Monte San Michele Monte San Michele is the highest hill in Chianti and it is an important observation point on all tuscan territory. From the big iron cross sited on the top, 868 mts high, when the air is clean and bright, after a windy day, you can see Florence, Arezzo, Siena, the Appennino mountains tops like Abetone [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Show # 73 - Panzano in Chianti Panzano is a little village near Greve in Chianti. It is famous in the world for the well known for butcher Cecchini’s “fiorentina steaks” and for the panoramic views upon Chianti hills that you can admire walking along these ancient roads.
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Video Recipe # 10 - Beans ‘Little Birds’ Style With Sausages Video Recipe # 10 – Beans ‘Little Birds’ Style with sausages
Ingredients
Beans, tomato sauce, olive oil, sage, sausages.
Preparation
Cook the beans in water and then strain.
Poke the sausages with the tines of a fork and place them in a ungreased pan without condiment.
Get out the sausages from the pan and put olive oil.
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Show # 72 - Dirt Road from Volpaia to Panzano One of the most beatiful dirt roads in Chianti and in all Tuscany: a real paradise on earth for those who love slow travel. In this video you can see these places during winter, an unusual period to travel here.
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