Curiosities - Trattoria Zà Zà

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11 March 2024

A botanical rarity at the Medici court: Bizzarria (citrus fruit similar to cedar)

20 February 2024

The Dome of Florence: art, sayings and curiosities

5 February 2024

Sweet florentine Carnival

17 January 2024

The florentine who brought SKIS to Tuscany

30 December 2023

Panpepato and Panforte to each their own spiced bread

8 December 2023

What are you we searching in Christmas Food?

27 November 2023

Via dello Studio (study street)

2 November 2023

Rosbif (italian way of saying)… or Roast beef

19 October 2023

Palace of devils and witches

2 October 2023

Lavender, perfume in the fields and taste in the kitchen

2 October 2023

It’s with sugar, it’s with grapes!

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22 August 2023

Florentine measures: have a short arm…

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20 July 2023

Sweet “popone” (Melon) and tasty ham, what a couple!

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4 July 2023

Dear Arno, I want to navigate you

25 June 2023

The first digital clock, that of the Santa Maria Novella station

25 June 2023

A ‘cartoccio’ as a snack to go… in jujube broth!

How many have heard the saying "andare in brodo di giuggiole"?

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11 January 2023

Alchermes, a florentine liqueur

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20 December 2022

The inventor of Cinema: from Florence to Cinecittà

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25 November 2022

Sgraffiti, the street art of 15th Century

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26 October 2022

Saffron, the flower that raised the towers

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7 October 2022

The “anglobeceri”. Poets, literators, inventors english but with florentine spirit

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2 September 2022

Dante’s train

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26 July 2022

140 years ago …

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6 July 2022

Lambs, lions, wild boars and angels…

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18 June 2022

The Games of Florence for the Patron

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20 May 2022

The nose glasses: an invention from Florence or Pisa?

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5 May 2022

Estimated, hatde and loved: Giorgio Vasari, the ‘thousand lives’ and the wedding planner

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7 April 2022

Flower in Florence. At the Ctystal Palace and on the balconies

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10 March 2022

Time is inverted and the sun runs on the floor

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19 February 2022

Caruso, a neapolitan in Florence

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26 January 2022

Curious roads and narrow streets around Zà Zà

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5 January 2022

The Befana arrives with the three Kings

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17 December 2021

The “Yule Log”

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17 November 2021

Autumn in Tuscany has the flavor and aroma of new oil

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18 October 2021

5 – 14 October 1582: the ten days that never existed

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21 September 2021

Florentine love stories: wishes and windows always open

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11 August 2021

Go on vacation!

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21 July 2021

From Via del Cocomero (watermelon) to the Horto (vegetable garden) dei Semplici

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3 July 2021

J like JUMPSUIT born in Florence, 101 years old

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31 May 2021

Verrocchio’s golden sphere

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6 May 2021

Tuscany. Homeland of wine, invents the first D.O.C.

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14 April 2021

Too much grace, Saint Anthony! (Italian way of saying)

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5 March 2021

Ancient streets of Florence: HELL, PURGATORY and LIMBO, the PARADISE in the suburbs

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8 February 2021

February 1883. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood …

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19 January 2021

Frozen and Ice boxes

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29 December 2020

Two thousand – 21

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25 November 2020

The power of book: emotions, travel and sharing

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21 October 2020

Discontent and happy: they meet outside the door

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24 September 2020

The Pope’s present to Florence

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26 August 2020

Arno, not only silver

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23 June 2020

Giotto, Cimabue and the colors

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17 May 2020

Beauty, to start again

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16 April 2020

Cooking with leftover

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23 March 2020

It is time to reflect on this word: TIME

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21 February 2020

For Carnasciale (Carnival), meat in abundance

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11 February 2020

Tuscan singers at Sanremo 2020 and more…

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3 February 2020

Born in Florence: the ‘italian theater’ and the telephone

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13 January 2020

To make good Eggnog: eggs, sugar, cinnamon and sweet wine

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28 November 2019

Truffle food of gods

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25 October 2019

Florence, words and music

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8 October 2019

Chestnuts in Tuscany

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19 September 2019

The table of the poor and the one of the rich

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30 August 2019

From the beer to Champagne

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14 August 2019

Florence, beauty is the setting for a movie

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24 July 2019

The lily that is not a lily

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8 July 2019

Cold dishes… to survive african warm

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19 June 2019

Solstice, the day that the sun stops

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4 June 2019

When fashion born

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22 May 2019

Ancient crafts and street food

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2 May 2019

It’s time to visit gardens

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15 April 2019

Eggs, surprises and cleverness!

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27 March 2019

Spring on the table

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8 March 2019

Genius in the kitchen: Leonardo Da Vinci cook and not only

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19 February 2019

Music in a glass of wine

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4 February 2019

Omelette without eggs…

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17 January 2019

Florence celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Negroni

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29 December 2018

A “lucky” New Year’s dinner

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14 December 2018

From Panforte to Cantucci and Ricciarelli, all tuscan Christmas desserts

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3 December 2018

New colors in the garden: a return to the ancient wisdoms

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20 November 2018

Lorenzo de’ Medici, not only the magnificent

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1 November 2018

The UFOs cheer for fiorentina

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19 October 2018

Crumbs between the lines: food inside books

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1 December 2017

Design objects we all use

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17 October 2017

Bianca and Francesco: their marriage and the mystery of their death

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21 September 2017

A french man the court of the Medici

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7 July 2017

Can you guess where tennis was born?

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8 June 2017

The Arrival of Summer, in Santa Maria del Fiore

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16 May 2017

THE 100th GIRO D’ITALIA pays tribute to Gino Bartali

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28 April 2017

Forty years with Zà Zà

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3 April 2017

Sweet Carnival

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30 March 2017

Cenacoli in Florence

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30 March 2017

La Quaresima (Lent)

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30 March 2017

The ‘Melodrama’ (the Opera)

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30 March 2017

The florentine t-bone steak was born in Piazza San Lorenzo