Treat yourself to a complete immersion in Maremma’s food, recipes, stories, and traditions.
Discover Maremma (Tuscany, Italy) and its inland, beaches, people, and folklore. Enjoy Maremma’s food and travel mindfully by slowly exploring this wild territory rich in culture and delicious recipes.
SIMPOSIO’S MAREMMA: COOKING, TRAVELING, AND INTERIORIZING MAREMMA’S FOOD CULTURE
Simposio’s Maremma is a travel cookbook with Maremma’s food and regional recipes framed by stories and legends from this Tuscan subregion.
Enrich your cooking with the places where Maremma’s food was born and the people who first cooked it.
Besides authenticity, I want you to have a little adventure each time you cook and savor a dish. To add a why and a story to your Maremma travel – from the couch or actually there. This means respect for the food on your plate, but also an opportunity to add that tad of magic that makes life unique. Sensations, just like our palate, must be cultivated, cared for, and nourished. And here’s a tiny guide full of passion and genuineness from the tables in Maremma, Tuscany, Italy!
Maremma is the Tuscan region of cowboys, brigands, and family-owned trattorie! Another Tuscany, far from the beautiful Medieval or Renaissance cities. Untamed, wild. Colonized and freed. Forgotten and celebrated. In this Maremma cookbook, we will meet a variety of personages: from eternally hunted outlaws to celebrated grand dukes. Fierce noblewomen defending their family possessions or seducing sultans. Corsairs, monks, deli and cafè owners, butchers, street market vendors, travel agents, and winemakers.
What you’ll get:
- OLD PERCHED TOWNS. You’ll climb up perched towns to see breathtaking sights and maybe catch a witch flying by or guarding a millennial olive tree.
- ETRURIAN CULTURE. You’ll follow the traces of Etrurians, of their cults and gods, and try to uncover the secrets they’ve left behind.
- TIME-TRAVELING. You’ll travel through the eras: the Middle Ages, the Spanish domination, the left wing…
- ITALIAN BEACH LIFE. On the shores, you’ll meet the Italian crowds searching for “la bella vita”, ladies bent over the sand to collect Telline (clams), and anglers at work to preserve their traditional fishing practices.
- AUTHENTIC RECIPES. You’ll gather herbs to make delicious authentic Maremma food and regenerate your tired limbs in thermal springs born of a god’s bolt.
- BUTTERI COWBOYS. Through food, you will witness the outdoor life and cuisine of the Butteri (horsemen) of Maremma.
- ITALIAN-JEWISH HERITAGE. Always through authentic Maremma recipes, you’ll learn more of the still vivid heritage of the Italian-Jewish communities.
- FOOD HISTORY. You’ll also learn how the smallest towns have exported recipes that have become the national food of… France! How terrible memories have evolved into delicious treats, and how scraps and unsold cuts have combined to give birth to extraordinary triggers for your taste buds. From wild boar to seafood, from ricotta to nutty Christmas sweets, you will learn how to cook real Maremma food.
There’s so much to discover about this beautiful land’s past and present, so much to enjoy! So let the adventure begin: go get your cookbook and start making delicious Maremma food!
SIMPOSIO: A COOKBOOK FROM ITALY
The Simposio cookbooks are made in Italy by an Italian author and printed and distributed locally.
The authentic, traditional, classic, and modern recipes are researched locally and accompanied by local stories, personal anecdotes, beautiful pictures, and Italian culture and folklore.
take a look inside SIMPOSIO’s Maremma cookbook
In this Maremma cookbook, you’ll find:
- 205 pages
- 100+ pictures
- 27 authentic Maremma food recipes
- stories and legends
- cowboys and witches
- Italian culture bites
INDEX:
06 Welcome To Maremma
08 Cooking Notes
10 Maremma Grossetana
14 Grosseto
18 Manciano
22 Eating In Maremma
26 Pici Porro, Guanciale E Pecorino
28 Ciaffagnoni
30 Sorano
36 Fagioli Neri Di Sorano
40 Egg Pasta Dough
44 Sugar And Cinnamon Tortelli
48 Pitigliano
54 Cauliflower Crostini
56 Fennel Flowers
60 Vinegar Chicken
68 Masconod
72 Minestra Di Esaù
74 Tuna Polpettone
76 Sfratti
80 Saturnia
84 Chestnut Tortelli
88 Castagnaccio Di Saturnia
90 Magliano In Toscana
96 Tortelli Maremmani
98 Ricotta Soup
100 Castiglione Della Pescaia
106 Campigliese
108 Orbetello
112 Bottarga Spaghetti
114 Scottiglia Di Orbetello
118 Topini
120 Giannella
122 Feniglia
124 Porto Ercole
128 Cuttlefish And Potatoes
130 Caldaro
134 Porto Santo Stefano
142 La Rosa Dei Venti
148 Pagnottelle Di Natale
152 Isola Del Giglio
160 Panficato
164 Capalbio
168 Tiburzi
174 Crostino Maremmano
178 Acquacotta Di Capalbio
182 Capalbio Wild Boar
186 Butteri
190 Rigatoni Alla Buttera
194 Fiorentina
196 Maremma Wines
Snuggle on the couch, pour yourself a glass of Morellino Di Scansano or Bianco di Pitigliano, light a candle, and put on soft music: your Maremma region exploration is about to begin!
Claudia