FLORENTINE FOOD
THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE RENAISSANCE It takes a special place to produce truly unique food and wineThe reach and influence of a ‘big banking’ or political dynasty family isn’t a modern phenomenon. The Medici’s pretty much invented the excess and wealth that can come from controlling a region (or country’s!) money. With this status came the patronage for most of the great Italian Renaissance art we still treasure today and of course: culinary excess – even when most of the population were unable to afford to eat meat, or worse, were starving.Even before they became Dukes, Popes and Queens, Florence...
Roman Holiday
Have kids. Will travel. When I first started dating my now husband we began travelling together almost immediately. Before we’d been together even 4 months, we took a spur of the moment trip to Hong Kong and spent 8 days getting lost and getting to know each other. Travel has become a key component in our relationship and a foundation of who we are. Covid has been merda and astonishingly hasn’t led to murder. Now that ‘care-free two’ have become ‘tired-AF three’, we are starting to prepare for our holidays to take on a new element: overseas travel...