I will just say first of all, traveling in Italy in summer is not for the faint of heart (you might want to read this post on how to survive an Italian heatwave). This was our first full-blown summer in Puglia experience. Most of my trips have been either in autumn or winter and I personally love visiting in these months (this New York Times article agrees). Our very first visit was in early June, 11 years ago. It was a pleasantly warm trip with beautiful early summer produce, but not a swelt...| Emiko Davies
November is my favourite month. My birthday is in November for starters, so that’s always a good excuse. It also happens to be white truffle season, and San Miniato, the small and steep hilltop town where my husband comes from, is the place to get prized white truffles, tartufo bianco, in Tuscany.| Emiko Davies
If someone were to ask me for the most typical Florentine dish, my answer would be simple: panini di lampredotto. Round bread rolls, opened up and filled with steaming hot lampredotto, topped with salsa verde. It is a dish and a tradition only found in the city of Florence.| Emiko Davies
San Miniato’s annual White Truffle Festival has been a highlight for me ever since calling Italy home and falling in love with a boy from San Miniato 15 years ago — here is another article about the White Truffle Festival from the early days of the blog from back in 2010. And I have to say, quite happily, that it doesn’t change much. My favourite stalls are always in the same place, I know where to go back to for that great truffle pecorino, or that tasty fried snack or the best roast c...| Emiko Davies
I’m so thrilled to share that I’ve been asked to join the collective of thirty of the most incredible food writers for a new platform called Scribehound. It’s a place where we can share things we are excited about with people who really love food and words. The comments section is where it is all going to be at, you can contribute to the discussion too, together with all of us.| Emiko Davies
This simple dish is one of my favourite autumn or winter desserts. It’s just perfect after a long lunch with friends, for example, as you can and should (technically speaking it makes things much easier) make many of these at once. After all, you just put all the apples in a baking tray together. I […] The post Mele al forno, baked apples and The Tuscan Year first appeared on Emiko Davies.| Emiko Davies
This is not the first time I have written about this subject, but it seems, year after year, that it is more and more important to keep talking about this. Florence sees record numbers each year and its popularity, in such a small town, means there is absolute chaos in the historical centre for a longer period of the year — it is not just July and August that see the most tourists, but now, because of the increasingly common extreme heat over the summer months in Tuscany, you’ll see crowd...| Emiko Davies
