The Tuscan is the typical mediterranean cuisine, and it is essentially the result of poverty.
Simple, wholesome ingredients have traditionally been thrown together to produce healthy but hardly fascinating meals.
This cuisine has also been refined and enriched, particularly with other dishes and combinations from more widely flung parts of italy.

One of the keys of the tuscan cuisine, remains the quality and freshness of the ingredients and the use of herbs, such as basil, thyme, parsley and rosemary (plants that also grown spontaneously in many italians gardens).

And let's not forget olive oil. This is not only an ingredient for salades, but 'extra vergine' oil of olive, with its precious property, can also be used as cosmetic for skin treatments.

And Tuscany produce some of the best italy has to offer.

Here you can find some of the most popular dishes you can eat in Tuscany:

Panzanella: a cold mixed salad with bread crumbs, onions, basil, tomatoes, and olive oil. Its freshness depends by the bread, which has to be unsalted and left for at least a day.
Pappa al pomodoro: basically a tomatoes soup with bread.
Cacciucco: a hot-pot stew of seafood also mixed with tomatoes.
Bistecca alla Fiorentina: This is a traditional dish in Florence. A Florentine steack is a large entrecote, including the fillet. Prepared on a cast-iron roasting dish (or much better, if possible, a gridiron over coals). A Florentine steak which is well cooked must be tender and succulent, while the outside must be crisp and have a well-grilled appearance.

For what concerne the place where you can eat, quality restaurants abounds in Tuscany and making a choice can sometimes be a little daunting. You can find many different kind of restaurants. From 'trattoria', which is a cheaper and simple version of a restaurant typical of the countryside villages, to 'enoteca' (wine bar) for those who love to taste wines by the glass, accompanied with snacks of full meals.

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