10/10/2026
Day two of Wildly Nourished’s Tuscan Food Retreat 🇮🇹🍅🍸☕️
We nipped into Lucca (after I’d got up at the crack of dawn for another sunrise, obviously) and enjoyed some time mooching around the local shops and markets.
My favourite part of our visit to Lucca had to be the €5 euro spritzes, and, of course, the milk chocolate and vanilla gelato. I mean for less than €4 that cone was a steal.
Back at the accommodation myself and a few others joined a focaccia making class. Sam Milne - Spray Tan Artist Uk I still think ours with rosemary and olives was the best 😉 Leaving the focaccia dough to prove in the sun was pretty fun, although I do think the w**e impacted my ability to perfect the art of bread making in the end. We can’t win them all Sam 🫶
A stunning beef ragu with parpadelle pasta was the highlight of dinner. And yes, I’ve managed to get my hands on the recipe and will be making again very soon.
I forgot to mention, at breakfast Smiller made some Buccellato di Lucca - an iconic, mildly sweet breakfast and dessert bread originating from Lucca. The saying goes, if you haven’t eaten this bread in Lucca, you haven’t visited Lucca at all. Sounds like I’ve been to Lucca then because the bread was an absolute treat.
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