Tuscan Food

One of the highlights of a trip to Tuscany is the region's many culinary delights. The Tuscan diet is considered a Mediterranean style diet, so it's relatively healthy.
Breakfast is often a cappuccino or expresso accompanied by a sweet pastry and prosciutto or salami.
Lunch is light and can be a smaller version of dinner or a pannini. The basics for lunch/dinner include raw or steamed vegetables, such as asparagus, artichokes, fennel, spinach, arugula and cannellini beans. They're accompanied by rice, pasta, gnocchi or bread for starches and pork, chicken, wild boar or rabbit for the meat dish. Fish also is served, especially near the coast.
Pecorino cheese, a specialty of Tuscany, might well make it into the meal, as well a scrumptious soup made from bread and vegetables.
Should you still have room, dessert could be a delightful pastry, cannoli, tiramisu or that heavenly Italian ice cream called gelato.
No discussion of the foods of Tuscany would be complete without a mention of the wines that accompany them so well. Chianti is the wine most people associate with Tuscany, but it is far from the only worthy wine. Brunellos from the small region of Montalcino are highly prized - and very expensive. Most of the wines, such as Tignanello and Sasicaia, are reds although Sauvignon and Chardonnay are also made.