Expo show garden on walls

Expo show, Verdemura garden show in Lucca.
Third edition. Plants, flowers and also gardening furniture and accessories. On the walls from Baluardo San martino to Porta Santa Maria.
12,00 till 19,00 on 26, 27 and 28 march.
More information on: www.murabilia.com

Almonds for Tuscan biscotti

A typical Tuscan biscuit from Capalbio – Tuscan biscotti

Ingredients:
5 eggs
1/2 kg of sugar
flour as is necessary
400 gr of shelled almonds
lemon rind (grated)
just a tip of leaven for walnuts

Arrange the flour on the pastry board, break off eggs and to shake them, add the sugar, the lemon rind, the almonds,  and a tip of leaven. Paste to get a soft paste. Form some rolls and put them in a buttered pie.
Put into an oven with moderate temperature for about half an hour.
After,  cut rolls in little slices large as a finger, put back in the oven again the biscuits to obtain the optimal cooking.

Olive trees

Cooking lessons and wine tour.
Private cooking class in Tuscany, guided tours in Chianti area and wine tasting assisted by “vacation consultant” in comfortable hotels in the heart of Tuscany. Also olive oil tasting combinated with lessons of traditional Tuscan cooking.

Torture instrument

The writer Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, the tutelary deity of masochism went to a wedding in this museum.
In San Gimignano Torture  Museum are present torture instruments from all over Europe, some even of the sixteenth and seventeenth century or the nineteenth and twentieth century philological reconstructions of original antiques.
Machinery explain that the human mind and its perversion found systems designed to inflict torture. There are weapons, devices and instruments of torture and public humiliation, engravings, prints and paintings.

Torture Museum:
Via del Castello 1/3, San Gimignano – SIENA

Open all year – from 10 to 19 hours
Price: full € 10.00; reduced € 6,00; groups € 4.00

Web-site: www.museodellatortura.com

Hello Kitty the Show

Hello Kitty the Show will be in Florence on 12 to 14 march at Teatro Verdi.
It’s a musical dedicated to 35th anniversary  of ideation.

For informations and tickets: www.teatroverdionline.it

TEATRO VERDI
Via Ghibellina 99
Firenze – Tel. 055 212320

Tuscan Pizza

If you want to eat a savoury pizza don’t never forget the good ingredients: tomato, mozzarella and capers!
In Tuscany is possible to eat the same pizza that you can find in Naples!

Traditional tuscan food

Are you looking for  traditional tuscan food?
Good, here you found the historic restaurant “Carignano” in Lucca. It’s a typical restaurant that offers tuscan specialities, bistecca alla fiuorentina, from the charcoal grill, many delicious traditional dishes, served ina friendly and relaxed atmosphere, but prompt service!
First class fresh local ingredients, new well appointed wine list with over 70 italian wines.
Quick fixed price lunch menu with many choices, private dining rooms for parties and meeting, open air summer terrace.
At your disposal menu for special occasions, dinner parties, birthdays, children’s parties etc..
The restaurant has ample private parking.
Carignano restaurant offers pizzeria with wood fired brick oven and a new menu, freshest ingredients and prompt service!

Restaurant “Alla Cantina di Carignano”
Via per S. Alessio 3684 Località Carignano – LUCCA – www.lacantinadicarignano.com

Open every day!

Tuscan red wine

The second year of this new wine show which runs in the main square and in the Chiostro Sant’Agostino.
More than 100 producers.
27 -29 march.
Etichette d’Autore as a part of this wine festival the Chiesa Sant’Agostino hosts a show of designer wine labels commissioned by major wineries from leading European artists.
16.00 – 19.00, 24-26 march and 10.00-19.30, 27 to 29 march.

Official web-site: www.wineartfestival.com

Lucca Jazz Donna

Ciao my Friends! A new event for you, music lover, to don’t miss visiting Lucca on March!

Concerts:
Sala Mario Tobino ( Palazzo Ducale )
Incontrarsi di nuovo a Lucca First set
Classico Carioca – omaggio a Chico Buarque.
Second set 3*3 Suites Project. Entrance Free: 21.15 on 6 March

Jazz dal Mondo First set Virginia Mayhew/Tony Pancella Quartet in the Mary Lau Williams Project. Second set Ratraba-the female4. Tichets Euro 15: 21:15 14 March

Premio Lucca Jazz Donna Competition for emerging female bands. Tichets Euro 8: 21:15 on 17 and 18 March

Ai Confini del Jazz Presentation of emerging bands award and concert with first set Giuliana Soscia & Pino Jodice 4tet and second set Steveland with Claudia Tellini. Tichets Euro 15: 21:15 on 21 March

Le Emozioni del Jazz First set Carla Marciano in a Vito Tommaso project. Second set Gaia Cuatro ensemble. Tickets Euro 15: 21:15 on 27 March

Auditorium Istituto Boccherini

Arrivederci a Lucca Jazz Donna 2011 First Set VJ Vocal Project Choral Orchestra. Second set Sybil Smoot and The New Stompers. Tickets Euro 15: 21:15 on 27 March

Tuscan salami, Mondiola from Garfagnana

Tuscan salami from Garfagnana!
If there is one animal whose role can be considered essential to the diet and gastronomic tradition of the Garfagnana, it is for sure the pig.
Every part of it is used  into typical delicious cured meats, such as biroldo, bondiola, and lard, represents “a ritual” in which entire rural families have always taken part.
These products have also recently received a quality trademark recognition.
Among the traditional preserved meats, we can mention special Tuscan salami: Mondiola, a fresh salame flavoured with bay leaves, the tasty lard of the Serchio valley, flavoured with herbs, and the biroldo, il prosciutto Bazzone.