Sultry summer evenings sitting opposite the church of San Francesco, a beautiful red brick and lime-washed building with cloisters of dazzling white stucco surrounding a sheltered rose garden humming with bees. When in Lucca, this is the place we are drawn to again and again for aperitivo. As the sun starts to dip behind the…
Tag: Black Olives
Livorno Balsamic-glazed Red Onion, Ricotta Salata and Olive Tart
Livorno, Tuscany’s quintessential port town on the southernmost edge of the Ligurian Sea, possesses a colourful history and a cosmopolitan heritage. My kind of place. Its shabby historic quarter – known as the Tuscan Venice – is crisscrossed with jade green canals along which skittish brown boys manoeuvre their launches as they attempt to coolly navigate…
Cardamom and Dill 