Roughly a week ago, we drove north from Siena through the Chinati region to Florence, where we returned the rental car and took up in our 1 bedroom apartment for the month. We are staying in a building attached to an old palace. While that may sound quite fancy, our building is actually the former stables for the palace. Nonetheless, its a nice place and its been nice having a kitchen and washing machine and so on.
I will post more later, but it is time for passageita (window shopping your way across town on a long walk before a big dinner). Tonight I am cooking a hearty tuscan tomato and bread soup - papa al pomodoro, along with fresh pasta with artichokes and olives, and for secondi (this is traditionally the meat course, by which point rishita has moved on to dessert), garlic and rosemary seasoned porkchop. Cooking here is alot of fun, because the produce is so fresh and flavorful, it is hard to make anything that tastes bad. I'm guessing eventually I will tire of cooking three course meals everynight....but for now i'm enjoying it quite a bit.
Florence has its place in history as the center of the Renaissance. You can look just about anywhere within the city and see signs of this. It's a very pretty place. Florence looks like this:
oh man florence looks beautiful! also how come i knew you for 5 years and you only started cooking after i left? OOL.
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