If I was not stuck by the snow in Pisa airport last Friday, which for me that I’m writing is actually tomorrow, I should be now in Belgium for the last day of a mini Christmas holiday, a long weekend with friends to discover a part of Europe that I never had the chance to [...]

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Here we are again. After tripe, spleen crostini and chiken liver crostini my true and genuine Tuscan blood comes out again to reveal a deep love for offals! This is the turn of pork liver. It is such a simple and true dish, perfect for upcoming winter months since it is flavourful and nourishing. The [...]

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Do you remember the crostini neri? The ones made with chicken liver? Well, today I’ll show you another version: these are made only with spleen. Obviously you can make Tuscan crostini with chicken livers and spleen together, to soften the strong and intense taste of spleen. These crostini are typical of my area, we made [...]

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Tuscany is bread without salt, is a good extravirgin olive oil, is a meat grill with friends, roasted chicken with potatoes and wild fennel, is cacciucco (a fish soup) on the seaside, Siena panforte and Florence schiacciata, is rosmary and sage… Tuscany, for me, is Grandma Menna’s Cooking. Granny Menna is how I called my [...]

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