Food, Wine and Culture all Come Together in Tuscany

Posted 12/12/2009 3:36:00 PM
January 21, Warming up with Ribollita

It’s no secret to anyone who listens to The Wine Experience or pays us a visit here on the web that we like to eat! And I have to tell you, Tuscany is a great place to do just that!

Winter in Tuscany means a whole bunch of different foods and dishes tending to the filling and hearty. One of those is Ribollita. Almost any trattoria, osteria or enoteca you walk into offers Ribollita. It’s a thick soup that can be a meal in itself and there are as many variations in style off of the basic combination of ingredients as there are places to order it. So it’s been my lunchtime mission to sample as many as possible!

To call Ribollita soup is even a stretch because it’s not soupy at all. In fact at one lunch stop near Radda in Chianti I ...