Diary

Read about adventures and tips all over the world and in Tuscany

A step back in typical Tuscan cuisine to savor it today!

Italian cuisine starts to get really interesting once you start breaking it down region to region. What you find in Rome or what you find in Venice will be completely different to food in Florence. This is what makes Tuscany so fascinating. Tuscany is a central region of Italy with Florence as the regional capital.…

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Iris pallida

Iris is a plant rich in history and symbolism as it has always been appreciated in all civilizations. Frescoes depicting irises were found near the walls of the temple of Amun in Karnak (ancient Thebes) in Egypt, and in the botanical garden of the pharaoh Tuthmosis III (1516 -1426 BC). It is said that the…

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