Between land and sea: Elba Featured

The city of Florence, in partnership with Showcase Tuscany, host dinners with recipes, products and wines from Elba island where the chef will be featured in the kitchen of Florentine colleague, with spaces for "interpretations" for four hands.
Each dinner will focus on a local product and a local wine selected by ElbaTaste, the consortium of companies that deals with promotion of enogastronomy Island of Elba and the islands of the Tuscan Archipelago.
Among the dishes protagonists can not miss some great classics of the repertoire of kitchen Elba as the bonito in oil or stewed, octopus all'elbana, the crab soup, stockfish riese, sburrita codfish, polenta with zeros, pens boat, the wild boar bracconiera, Besides several preparations of wild herbs.
To accompany the emerging wines as Elba Ansonica, Vermentino, Elba White, Sangioveto and Elba red and ending with dessert: Moscato and the famous Aleatico Elbe, the wine preferred by Napoleon. Some dishes of fish will be watered by a new product: Beer Elbe. To round off a wide assortment of traditional desserts back in vogue recently, thanks to a research work based on notes and historical recipes like Crush briaca, the Panficato, the Imbollita figs, schiacciunta. The goal is to enhance the food and products enogastronomy Elba little known outside the island.
Events calendar:
The 20 January Paolo Gori "Burde" Massimo Poli hosts of "The Tavern of Poets"; the 27 January Claudio de Vicenzo "The limonaia Villa Rospigliosi" hosts Umberto Giacomelli "Il Gallo Nero"; the 3 February Filippo Saporito "The Legend of the Friars" hosts Mark Olmetti of "Pepenero"; l ' 11 February Claudio Bianchi de "I Ghibellini" Joseph Sisillo hosts of "The Loving", the 17 febbraioBarbara Guarnieri's "Gustavino" hosts Luigi Muti's "Wind in Poppa"; the 25 February Claudio de Catalans the "Goldfish" is home of Mirko Lanari "Belmare", the 3 March Luca de Cai "warehouse" Amos Rota hosts of "Emanuel"; the 9 March Silvia Mine "Stop Rossellino" hosts Danilo Ferrara's "North Cape".
The series of events dedicated to Elba will close 17 March at 15,30 all’Georgofili Academy with the conference: “Wine in Jars between archaeological research and production”. Among the speakers will be Franco Cambi, Professor of Methodology of Archaeological Research, University of Siena, which led, in collaboration with the Association "Aithale – Land and sea men of the Tuscan ", the excavations in the area of ​​the Archaeological Park of the Roman Villa of the Caves where were found ancient wine amphorae from the Roman.