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What you will learn and experience in
this weeks time is a slower, perhaps more genuine lifestyle.
You'll learn how and where to buy the best ingredients, how
to prepare them and enjoy them around a table of family and
friends. We will have time for visiting hill towns and prestigious
piazzas, for taking walks through the countryside and if
you like, riding horses through olive groves.
You will live, breathe, become Tuscan,
in a sense. In the words of the great Lorenzo de' Medici "You
are what you eat" By the end of this week, we trust
you will be satisfied with enough good food, good wine, good
friends and great recipes to take home. Taste the renaissance.
It's not too late.
Day 1 
Arrive at the Fattoria degli Usignoli
Rest, horseback riding, walking
Aperitivo and presentation of program
Dinner
Day 2
Walk in the country side
Culinary Italian lesson with Angela Bassaro
Class: intro to Tuscan cuisine and Antipasti
Dinner 
Day 3
Visit to Pierre's herb farm
Class: hand-made pasta, bread, and risotto
Dinner and wine lesson
Day 4
Breakfast at Sando's bakery
Visit to market in Figline
Class: pizza and focaccia for dinner
Day 5
Excursion into the Chianti Classico countryside along the 'Gallo Nero' road.
Stop in Greve in Chianti for a 'butcher's look', at Macelleria Folorni.
Time for shopping in the town square.
Next, a stop in San Gimignano for tasting of local wines at 'Gustavo'. Time to have a look around the medieval city of towers. Shop ceramics.
Day 6
Visit to Selvapiana winery
Class: composite menu and deserts
Dinner
Day 7
Visit to Florence
Lunch at Cibreo restaurant
Gala dinner and presentation of certificates
Day 8
Breakfast and departure
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