Lunching with Art
Art and Cuisine in Florence.
Discovering Florence, guided by an art historian, who will accompany you along surprising artistic itineraries.
The program:
- 10-12:30 a.m. Walks and visits to some of the symbolic sites of the city, to discover that at times the renaissance Florentine artistic culture was closely connected with the gastronomic culture, the taste for conviviality and good food.
- 12:30a.m. – 3.00 p.m. The itineraries end in a typical Florentine building of the city centre. Here guests may relax while trying some typical dishes of the great Italian culinary tradition, prepared by the host, a real wine and cooking connoisseur.
The itineraries
- 1st Itinerary: Pontormo and Palazzo Pitti. The dietetic parsimony and luxury of the Palatine lunches. The antithesis of the relationship between art and food in sixteenth century Florence.
- 2nd Itinerary: The Cenacoli: art, food and religion in the great Renaissance frescoes. Discovering symbols and daily life in the tables laid for the Last Supper
- 3rd Itinerary: Brunellleschi and the Duomo. An artist, an engineer and perhaps, a chef?
Lunch
A welcome aperitif made from white wine or sparkling white wine with something to whet the appetite: pecorino and broad beans or pecorino and fruit pickles, or Tuscan cold sliced meats, or Tuscan toasts with liver sauce topping.
- A first course: generally with seasonal vegetables.
- A second course of meat or roast fish.
- Pies and omelettes for vegetarians.
- One or two side dishes (salad, baked vegetables, cannellini beans).
- Red table wine: Chianti classico in a labelled bottle, 0,25 litre per person are provided included in the price. If you look for special labels, please, check our wine list
- A soft dessert: a cream tart or panna cotta or mousse with a sauce of some kind.
- Sweet wine: passito (raisin wine) or muscatel.
- Moka coffee
