Tastes of FLORENCE

Of course, Italian cuisine is well known for its diversity, but what is perhaps less known is that the region of Tuscany is the same. Within each of its provinces, there are marked differences of style, method and flavour. And nowhere are these differences more pronounced than in Florence.

Although the broad similarities that can be found in all varieties of Tuscan cuisine do not go unnoticed, the city’s history has stamped its own distinctive identity on the local table. In many ways this is a tale of two halves: on the one side the cuisine of the masses; on the other, that of the well-to-do.

The cradle of the Renaissance, Florence has long been the region’s most prosperous city. As such, the austerity and simplicity that has characterised Tuscan country or regional cooking developed in Florence alongside