Get the latest Tuscany recipes from Group Recipes. http://www.grouprecipes.com/tag/tuscany This sumptuous book is such a celebration of Italian baking at its best. It is not filled with pictures from cover to cover (as I’d love a book to be) but the cover shot alone shows a sampling of what is within the pages. A wonderful book that takes you all around the Italian home bakery. Aside from great breads of all types, biscotti, tarts, there is also techniques for working with yeast, hand-drawings that show the shaping of the breads and more. There are 5 soups in the 1985 edition that I have and the Ribollita (Tuscan Bean Soup) is worth getting the book! There are so many unique breads in here that capture the true, great art of baking and so much more! This is in the words of Carol Fields herself: “These days, simple is sophisticated and rustic is chic. All over Tuscany, trattorie are full of the most delicious peasant soups, which were initially created from simple necessity. Some say that ribolleta was made from the bread that was used as a trencher for roasts in hungry servants, who put it in a big pot of water with vegetables and prepared in the country on a Friday; therefore it is meatless and doesn’t even have the hint of a prosciutto bone or a bit of pancetta. It is made of the most basic ingredients-bread, potatoes, kale, a few handfuls of cabbage. When it was ribollita, or reboiled, it turned up again at lunch on Saturday as a wonderful leftover that has now become a staple soup of the region. Nowadays most ribollite in Tuscany are tasty vegetable soups made with Tuscan beans, a civilized bit of cuisine created from rougher beginnings.” http://www.grouprecipes.com/87984/ribollita-tuscan-bean-soup.html Pollo alla Toscana This dish is just great. Can be served with pasta, roasted potato and of course a nice Pino Grigio. http://www.grouprecipes.com/79924/chicken-tuscany.html All the best flavors of Tuscany, love the addition of fennel, shallot and lemon. Very moist and the pan sauce is delicious. http://www.grouprecipes.com/22673/tuscany-roasted-whole-chicken.html