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Making tourism work to sustain the rural economy and the people

You will encounter an endangered lifestyle which we don’t want to disappear

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Inspiring culinary tours of life behind the scenes that you won't find in any guidebook

Get to know the food artisans and crafts people of Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont and Liguria

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Let Italy surprise you

Discover a gentle way of life, a generosity of spirit and the enjoyment of simple pleasures

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Join in with the locals

Pick grapes and olives with the estate owner, bake bread with the village baker, cut the cheese curd with the shepherd, cook with Italian mammas, party at village festivals

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Enjoy Italy's cultural and natural heritage

Music, art, architecture, gardens, shopping and walks in glorious countryside

Welcome

Sapori e Saperi Adventures are vacations for people who daydream about finding a shepherdess on a hillside with her flock and being transported to her cantina to watch her make pecorino cheese; people who can't stare at a bottle of olive oil without wondering when and how the olives are picked, pressed and bottled; people who love to cook and eat.

The Adventures open locked doors to a brand new palette of exquisite flavours (sapori) and new skills and knowledge (saperi).

Sign up for one of our seasonal small-group tours or contact us to arrange a personalised tour for you or your group from a day to as long as you like.

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Sapori e Saperi Adventures is a member of Slow Travel Tours, an affiliation of small-group trip operators offering personalised tours to Europe. All have a similar travel philosophy of spending more time in fewer places to develop an understanding and appreciation for the countries we visit. If one of our trips is not right for you, please look at those of others in this group. Follow the Slow Travel Tours blog to learn more about our way of travel, and read Heather's latest post!

Heather's Blog...

Garfagnana Potato Bread Part 1

This is Real Bread Maker Week in the UK and in special tribute to such an important event I’m writing about Garfagnana Potato Bread. The Garfagnana is a spectacularly beautiful mountainous region in northwest Tuscany, due north of Lucca. As traditional cuisine goes in Italy, potato b ...
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Seasonal Eating 2

At the fruttivendola (fruit and veg shop) in La Villa, Bagni di Lucca, last week, I found the first signs of spring vegetables. Among them were carciofi mamme, or mamma’s artichokes. They’re bigger and more rotund than the pointy petite winter ones. The mamme don’t have spines at the tips of ...
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Seasonal Eating 1

On Saturday I bought the last three blood oranges — tarocco in Italian — in my village shop. From now until next January I'll look forward to the sweet sharp burst of flavour when I taste the first to arrive from Sicily in the new season.

Fritelle di San Giuseppe

Today is Saint Joseph's day and in northern and central Italy we traditionally eat rice fritters. I bought some this morning at the bar-pasticcieria in Ponte a Serraglio. I couldn't resist taking a couple of bites before I got home to take the photo. Every family has its secret recipe. These are ...
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Slow Food Disfida della Zuppa, or Soup Tournament

What more could possibly be said about soup after my three blogs in 2010 about the Slow Food Lucchese e Compitese soup tournament (see links below)? Lots, judging by the animated discussions at the last elimination round last Thursday. First, this isn’t a tournament in which any old liq ...
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