Last day in Tuscany :-(

We're having a fantastic time here...both cooking and getting to know the people on our cooking team - they're a lot of fun. This morning we visited the Agriturismo Belagaggio, a beautiful farm, where we cooked with 3 very talented women from the same family - the grandmother Ada, her daughter Antonella, and Antonella's daughter, Gloria. We made fiori di zucca (zucchini flowers in batter deep fried and filled with melted mozzarella and a single anchovy), pasta al forna (essentially lasagna with the most delicious meat sauce) and tiramisu - all delicious of course. Here are some photos of the little house used only for baking pizzas. That's quite a fire they have going in that building.






Here are three of my fellow cooks getting the pizzas to the oven.


Here's a view from their farm looking out toward the village of Montefollonico nestled on the hill.


While we cooked all those delicious dishes Carl and Alec visited two wineries Avignonesi and Palazzo Vecchio. Both agreed the wineries were "top rate ".









After lunch we headed to the Regale winery for a wine tasting with the owner Flavio Andreucci. The winery has been in his family for over 300 years and he showed us a bill of sale his family made to Napoleon. Flavio provided us with several glasses of his wines and then took us through many hilarious stories of his travels in the USA.



Flavio owns an enormous Mastiff dog with gorgeous fur. I had to have a photo with him.


Tonight is the farewell dinner. I will post all the details tomorrow. Then on to Rome for a week.
Ciao!


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