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Chianti rosé secures EU approval for new DOCG rules
Brussels has published amended rules for the appellation, permitting a dry rosé and adding an eighth subzone named for Leonardo da Vinci's home village.
Panforte recipe: Siena's dense spiced nut and fruit cake
A medieval Tuscan recipe that is more honeyed nut brittle than cake: toasted almonds and hazelnuts, candied peel and warm spice, set hard and sliced thin.
Italy's chestnut prices rise 46% as drought cuts the harvest
Ismea's October price data put chestnuts at €3.50 a kilo nationally, up 46 percent in a year, as Coldiretti estimates this autumn's harvest is down by about a quarter.
Castagnaccio recipe: Tuscany's chestnut flour cake, Artusi's way
Chestnut flour, water, olive oil, pine nuts and rosemary: the Tuscan autumn cake Artusi listed as recipe 240, baked thin so the top cracks and the centre stays soft.
Fettunta recipe: Tuscany's new-oil toast, done right
Fettunta is the simplest test of new-season olive oil: toasted bread, garlic, salt, and as much green, peppery oil as the bread will hold.
Ribollita recipe: the Tuscan soup that is boiled twice
Dried cannellini, cavolo nero, savoy cabbage and stale unsalted bread, cooked one day and boiled again the next. Six portions, with the reason behind every step.
Antinori wine theft: 30,000 bottles reported stolen in Cortona
Italian media put the value at about €5 million. Carabinieri and police are investigating, no arrests are reported, and the sources disagree on the night it happened and on bottle prices.
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