Finally a weekend where shoving endless amounts of samples in your mouth and sneaking back around for seconds is completely acceptable. The 9th edition of Pitti Taste has created the perfect event for all the food, wine, and beer lovers of the world, bringing nearly 300 gourmet producers from around Italy to Florence. We admit to being pretty greedy when it comes to bottomless samples; we will just eat what ...

Touch the coast of Italy: check. Climb the Duomo: check. Eat a cannoli from Sicily: check. Eat a cow's stomach lining (EEEK), but: check. My list can go on. But noticing that my adventure in Italy was coming to an end and I hadn't yet been through the Tuscan countryside? That was almost shameful. Riding a bike through cypress-tree-lined roads and olive groves had always been a must if I ever came to Italy. ...

With Florence being such a renowned city of romance, it is likely that everyone is excited to go out and see all the happy couples participate in public displays of affection. Personally, I prefer to rejoice in the ambience of other peoples’ sickly happiness whilst under the influence of a lethal amount of alcohol… and by rejoice I mean shout profanities at them until someone starts crying, usually me. So f ...