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Pisan specialties and typical dishes of Tuscan cuisine

Tuscany is a region that has always been synonymous with excellent culinary traditions, first choice products and conviviality.
Are you planning a visit to the city of the leaning tower and want to know where to find the nicest and most interesting places to taste the local specialties? Pisa has in common with all the other cities of the region natural and artistic beauties, but it is also able to offer tasty and unmissable traditional dishes.

The food specialties

Typical Pisan specialties include some dishes shared with the rest of the Tuscan cities, in particular the appetizers made up of classic croutons, regional cured meats and cheeses: goodies to start what will surely be a meal with all the trimmings! We continue with the first courses: the pisano-style bordatino (a soup made with beans, black cabbage and yellow flour, typically winter), chickpea soup and the famous tomato soup, not forgetting spaghetti with clams and pappardelle with rabbit sauce. The second courses, on the other hand, include both meat (in particular game) and fish: eels on the knee (fried eels cooked in tomato stew), cod with leeks, stockfish with potatoes, pheasant, hare, fallow deer or wild boar and the classics little beans with bird.

The pisan wines

Usually when you talk about Tuscany, the most celebrated Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, Bolgheri come to mind. Actually, on this tour I wanted to learn about the different facets of the territory and of Pisan wines. And they are many: from the Tyrrhenian coast of Riparbella to the upper Val Cecina, from the Pisan Hills to Terricciola, up to the Etruscan Volterra. Among vineyards in areas still untouched, at altitudes ranging from 250 to 400 meters above sea level. Here the water mass of the Tyrrhenian Sea mitigates excess heat allowing an optimal maturation of the grapes.

Extra virgin olive oil of Monti Pisani

It is known that olive oil is a fat containing triglycerides (98-99%), of considerable interest as they control important biochemical mechanisms, and other compounds of considerable importance for conservation purposes. Among these: Vitamin E, Sterols, Polyphenols, Chlorophyll.
Tuscan Monti Igp Olive Oil “Monti Pisani” is one of the best, is an oil obtained from olives of the varieties Frantoio, Leccino, Moraiolo, hand-picked and cold pressed. The freshly pressed oil is more or less intense green in function of the degree of maturity of the olives, has a spicy taste, with a certain degree of bitterness; over the months, it tends to yellow, while retaining a fruity smell and taste.

Choose our Food & Wine walking tour, we will let you discover and taste the typical dishes and the best Tuscan specialties, walking in the historical center of Pisa.

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