Birthday celebrations for Grazia Renucci at the L’Osteria this evening.
Bluesman Geoff Collins -White from Jack’s Pack was there to give the evening that added swing.
Once again as in other years for the past week or so rumours of the start of the porcini season- the local wild mushrooms that grow up in the mountains around Barga - have been percolating around the city.
There have even been a couple of images of newly found porcini seen on a cell phone but today all the rumours became fact when one of the seasoned mushroom pickers walked into Barga Vecchia with a wicker basket across his shoulder containing the first of this year’s precious crop. Continue reading ‘Shhh, the porcini are here but don’t say anything’
Today is Father’s Day in Italy, well almost, it’s the Festa di San Giuseppe - St. Joseph’s Day. Traditionally in this area the fathers get to eat frittelle, or even better - frittelle di riso- fried rice fritters and maybe polenta made with chestnut flour, castagnaccio -a cake made from chestnuts or if they are lucky, necci con ricotta - crêpes like pancakes made of chestnut flour cooked between two circular heated plates of metal - the testi or cotte (depending just where you live in the area) Anna Turicchi, the cook at the L’Osteria Angelio in Plazza Angelio in Barga Vecchia prepared for her lucky customers some freshly fired frittelle this evening Continue reading ‘Frittelle for Festa di San Giuseppe’
