Cultured vulgarity
We often smile when we hear certain expressions from the old peasant dialect, usually colorful and brutal in some way. We think of ourselves as proud ...
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Timballo, and epic hunger
The late 1990s saw the Americans express their love for Italians by releasing a film about them; in particular, it expressed their love – obsess...
Casentino: a hidden gem
Legend has it that in building Florence’s Palazzo della Signoria, now the iconic Palazzo Vecchio, the architect Arnolfo da Cambio was aiming for...
Arcimboldo: when food is an art form
We are living a historic moment and food is the unrivalled protagonist. Cooking has become a spectacle, brought to our TVs by celebrity chefs who intr...
Pruning: rest and rebirth
It’s winter, and the vines are enjoying some well-deserved respite after the harvest. The leaves have fallen to the ground and the bare branches...
Pici. But you can call them Pinci
Pici, pinci, appicciare...what are you talking about? That would have been the response of any number of Florentines, had they been asked if they kne...
If wine can be melodramatic
Versa vino, eccellente Marzemino! The wine that is sung more than any other is Marzemino, thanks to its mention in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Accord...
Parmigiana di Melanzane: a mystery
The "mela insana" (crazy apple) was brought to Italy by Arab merchants at the turn of the fifteenth century. The eggplant began to appear in Sicilian ...
Home delivery: something old, something new
There’s nothing new about the idea of having food delivered to your door, just like there’s nothing new about takeaway: food on the go is ...
Happy Birthday Le Tre Rane!
It’s hard to believe, but Locanda Le Tre Rane – Ruffino will be celebrating its first birthday on Friday 23 October! The desire to open a...
A taste of the Renaissance
The winding road that leads to Chianti from Bagno a Ripoli abruptly unfurls with a view on the left that’s only interrupted by the verticality o...
Le Tre Rane - Ruffino
Legend has it that Le Tre Rane was an inn that a young Leonardo da Vinci opened on Florence’s Ponte Vecchio, with an inspiring vision that food ...
It’s a good story, the story of Ruffino
Like the straw around a flask, Ruffino’s history is a story woven from truth and legend, the certifiable and the cinematic. During the First Wor...
Monteriggioni, the non-existent Inferno
Out of the hundreds and thousands of jewels set in Italy’s crown, Monteriggioni holds a special place. Despite the myriad magical walled towns t...
Caterina’s taste
It is well known that the Italian language has its roots in the fourteenth-century Florentine that was spun so sublimely by Dante, Petrarch and Boccac...
Sunday Lunch
I still remember those noisy lunches at grandma’s. The house was small, but the dining room, which was used only once a week and was otherwise k...
Le Tre Rane Estate
It’s been over a month since Poggio Casciano returned to some kind of normality, and again we’re welcoming plenty of food and wine enthusi...
The city that invented the skyline
There’s probably nothing that hasn’t been said before about San Gimignano and its history, its golden century - its golden age - when it b...
Vinum, the Etruscan legacy
Few ancient peoples elicit charm and mystery in equal measure: the legacy of the Etruscans became sedimented in the country’s past, fully comple...
Le Tre Rane to your door
The long lockdown severely limited our restaurant activity, but it didn’t stop us from thinking and planning. In fact, we used the time to laun...
Firenze Jazz Festival
It’s still very hot for September. The sun presses down with its sheen of milky humidity and the constant cicada chorus blends with the voices o...
History of a successful flask
2020 is a significant year for one of Ruffino's most significant wines. The Ruffino flask is back holding the local red, Chianti Rufina DOCG: a proud ...
Discovering lost citrus
Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s reputation far exceeds the breadth, and perhaps also the depth, of his artistic output. The artist from Lombardy is one of...
When breakfast matters
Waking up, that sudden reconnection with the harsh everyday reality and a way of turning it into something special: breakfast. The frescoed ...
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