We are back in the U.S. after 8 days in beautiful Tuscany. Our trip began with a couple of hiccups — a flight cancellation and two-day wait for a rebooked flight, a lost suitcase, an internet connection that didn’t work as promised, and arriving closer to the actual holiday than we generally prefer (mid-day on Christmas Eve), which meant that we were doing some very jet lagged shopping in cold rain to stock our apartment before all shops closed for the holiday. These were all annoyances that we generally can avoid with some careful planning. And although we prefer to see our planning result in success, we learned that the charm of Tuscany rapidly reduces these annoyances to something bordering on on irrelevant.
I intended to blog about some of the meals we ate in Tuscan restaurants and about our adventures in the markets and cooking in our apartment. So, before I shift my mindset and blog focus to cooking in the U.S. in the new year, what follows in the next few posts are some of the culinary highlights.
Buon appetito!
