Category Archives: Tuscany

Snow Patterns

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Heather Jarman

The travellers’ image of Tuscany is all sunshine, olive trees, vines and cypress-lined roads, and if you come in spring, summer or autumn, that’s mostly what you’ll see (although you’d be in for a surprise here in the Garfagnana). In … Continue reading →

Posted in LANDSCAPE, Tuscany | 2 Comments

How do you find…?

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Heather Jarman

This sounds like a question you type into Google, but it’s what my clients ask me when I’ve taken them to a cheese maker on a mountain top or a handloom weaver in an unmarked house in a higgledy-piggledy mediaeval … Continue reading →

Posted in cheese, FESTAS, ICE CREAM / GELATO, RESTAURANT, SEAFOOD, TRADITION, Tuscany | 6 Comments

Kissing In the New Year

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Heather Jarman

It’s the custom at midnight at the New Year’s Eve dinner in Casabasciana to pop open the spumante, take a gulp and then get up and greet everyone with ‘Auguri! Buon Anno!’ and a kiss on each cheek. At my … Continue reading →

Posted in FESTAS, Tuscany | 8 Comments

Confessions of a Novice Wine Taster

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Heather Jarman

Since you seem to have to make a humiliating public confession to get noticed these days, I confess I’m a wine ignoramus. For someone who leads food and wine tours in Italy, I’m like a bird without its wings. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Tuscany, WINE | 2 Comments

High Pastures

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Heather Jarman

Last Thursday Cristina, who owns the restaurant the Antico Uliveto in Pozzi di Seravezza, and I walked up to the high pastures of the Alpi Apuane in northern Tuscany to visit a couple who are among the very few who … Continue reading →

Posted in cheese, holidays, sheep, Tuscany, Versilia | 1 Comment