Amore and Amaretti by Victoria Cosford

Author:Victoria Cosford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McArthur & Company Publishing Limited
Published: 2011-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

Finchè c’è vita c’è speranza

Where there’s life there is hope

‘Much Ado About Chianti’ begins with torrents of rain beating down the sides of the hired minivan as we drive to Florence airport to pick up our group. Blessedly the rain disappears overnight, leaving a cool, dry week for our ramblings.

Each day there is a cooking class either in the morning or the afternoon, held in a tiny galley-like kitchen attached to the guests’ dining area. Gnocchi, pasta sauces, casseroles and desserts are somehow produced around a domestic electric stove, which dies on the second last day, so that we are forced to rush the castagnaccia pressed into its round tin over to the manager’s private apartment, where her oven obligingly cooks it for us. (It is still pronounced too odd for enjoyment, this flat, rubbery cake made from chestnuts and seasoned with rosemary.) The rest of the time we are in and out of the minivan, visiting Greve markets, ceramic factories, vineyards, castles, a ricotta factory, and beautiful Siena, where Piero herds us into Osteria le Logge for buttery strands of fresh tagliatelle bathed in ovoli mushroom sauce, then later, an enoteca to sip Asti spumante in the thin afternoon sun.

Valerie, Douglas and I share one of the apartments at the villa and hold exhausted post-mortems most evenings before bed. There is no doubt the week is a great success, and yet we had no idea that entertaining a small group of adults every waking minute would be quite so demanding.

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