Eating out in Italy: Florence and its cuisine
Monday, October 27th, 2008Florence does not simply regard itself as home to the greatest of Italian regional culinary traditions, but as the birthplace of Western cookery alltogether. Florentines will tell you with pride that it was Catherine de Medici who taught the French to cook by taking a team of Tuscan chefs with her when she moved to France to marry the Duke of Orleans, later to become King Henry II.. (more…)