Among the most renowned and refined cuisines all over the world, Tuscan cuisine is absolutely one of the epitomes of Italian excellence.

Upon which elements does Tuscan cuisine find its signature stamp?

Well, upon simplicity, sobriety and essentiality. We find this way of thinking also in the dishes and the single ingredients, poor and genuine as the tradition requires: it is not a coincidence that the Ribollita, Tuscany’s most famous traditional dish, is very poor and simple, for humble and healthy people.

Well, upon simplicity, sobriety and essentiality. We find this way of thinking also in the dishes and the single ingredients, poor and genuine as the tradition requires: it is not a coincidence that the Ribollita, Tuscany’s most famous traditional dish, is very poor and simple, for humble and healthy people.

The trademark bestsellers from Tuscan cuisine are bread and oil, as according to the pastoral tradition. This means that in Tuscany, you will find olive groves that produce the most refined and high-quality oil. Oil and bread represented the main assets for a territory that wanted to brand itself as an noble, abundant and rich place. On this matter, Tuscany has very few rivals.

Tuscany’s vineyards are famous all over the world and its quiet valleys with their smell of fermenting must are the main protagonists of everyone’s mental, postcard-like idea of Tuscany, also inspired by many movies’ visual representation of it. Tuscany owns something like 13 D.O.C. wines and 7 D.O.C.G. wines: an actual priceless patrimony. Among the most renowned names there is Chianti, which is also in many of our selections and Boxmixes, together with Vernaccia from San Gimignano. Other important names are Montepulciano, Brunello di Montalcino and Sassicaia, a particular graft of Cabernet ripened in Tuscany.

Another well-known regional ingredient that we cannot not mentions is cured pork meat. In Italy, there’s a whole food category and tradition behind it, which can be recollected through the memory of pastors and their picnics during their working shifts: since they couldn’t afford coming home for breakfast, their wives used to prepare and bring in the fields small baskets containing bread and cured pork meat of all kinds. The most famous kinds are Briciolona from Siena, Tuscan salami and Wild boar salami, another typical item coming from Tuscan Apennines.

As a matter of fact, Tuscan cuisine compels the senses with its unique, sincere and genuine flavours that are the most essential components that you will find in a satisfying cuisine.

Everyone, in front of a woman he loves and a fine glass of wine will think of Russell Crowe’s words from the movie A Good Year: - "I would like a lifetime spent with an irrational and suspicious goddess, some short-tempered jealousy on the side, and a bottle of wine that tastes like you, a glass that’s never empty."-

TUSCANY BOX MIX