Food, for example.
When Jackie and I go to the store we buy for several days. Ribs we buy at Headon's on a Thursday can be cooked on a Sunday. Chicken can be held for a day or two before cooking or freezing, and buns and bread can stay for a few days.
Over here it is a little different.
We have about 7 loaves of stale bread stacked up in the kitchen. One loaf actually fell off the counter into the dishwasher and shattered a wine glass, like a hammer or rock would. That bread was one day old.
I swear we bought a loaf at a bakery today and by the time we got it home, it was as hard as a rock!!
And meat....we bought ribs on Thursday expecting to cook them on Sunday. When we opened the package, the odor of rotting meat was enough to knock us off our feet!!
I guess that is why people over here shop daily. Buy it, cook it, eat it........ all in the same day.
Wine however, seems to be a different story.
Maria and Mario owners of the villa, stopped buy last night to see if they could see the boars. They seemed surprised we have gove through 27 bottles of wine so far. That seems a lot, but we bought at least that much yesterday!
We went to southern Tuscan hill towns of Montelpulciano and Montalcino. Montalcino is where brunello wine is produced. I love brunello wine. I opted against the really great offer of shipping 6 bottles home for about $100 and bought two bottles to carry in my suitcase instead...no shipping needed, just sipping.
The scenery near Siena is totally different than the scenery near Panzano. We have wooded, steeply rolling hills. Siena has gently rolling terrain with lots of sunflowers, corn, what looked like sorghum. grapes...and the typical Tuscan houses with lanes lined by lombardi poplars. Two very different regions.
No boars last night. And I am sure some day someone will laugh about her experience, but I can't really say much about it or I might get hurt.
Here's a few pictures from Monday.
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| Lunch in Monteulciano.... seating is family style. Great lunch for about $10 !! |
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| People buy steak by the kilo...tell how much you want, they slice it off the slab, show it to you, then cook it in a wood fired oven. |
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| Heading down to the wine cellar |
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| We passed lots of casks where wine was still being stored...but not in these. |
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| So if they put a sign announcing it, is it still a secret passage?? |
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