Best Pasta
The maccioroncini with wild rabbit and celery ragu at Beccofino.
Details of a Wednesday Afternoon
One of the best parts of travel is the walking — not only does it help to digest even the most generous meals, but on foot the details of a city seem to emerge from the shadows. The street furniture, ledges to sit on that the princes of Florence thought to include...
Mamma Gina
Mamma mia! is what we thought the minute we walked into Mamma Gina a smoothly-run, casually elegant series of dining rooms housed inside a 15th century palazzo across the Arno. Heavy beams and stone arches — pretty much standard issue in Florence — form the...
l’Ultimo Giorno
Since there has to be a last day of any visit to Florence, we spent ours enjoying the warm weather, sampling one more straciatella gelato and visiting the Casa Buonaroti. The house was purchased by Michelangelo, but he never lived in it - instead leaving it to his...
Rivoire & the Piazza della Signoria
In the heart of old Florence, home to the power brokers (the signoria), the Palazzo Vecchio, the Uffizi and the outdoor sculpture garden organized by Georgio Vasari and Medicis — the Piazza della Signoria offers some of the finest people-watching, cafe-sitting and...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.