THE WONDERS OF LOCAL CUISINE, The Wonders Of Local Cuisine

Hi, my name’s James, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to the wonderful flavors of Pisa.

In Pisa, in addition to many traditional Italian and Tuscan dishes, you’ll have the chance to try a few that are typical local specialties.

The best-known local dish is pasta e ceci, a short pasta variety cooked in a purée of chickpeas and tomato concentrate, flavored with rosemary, while the city’s most typical specialty is the famous zuppa alla pisana, a soup made with Tuscan kale and cannellini beans.

You might also like to try another dish on many local menus, trenette alla renaiola, once the staple diet of the boatmen who transported sand – which used to be called rena – along the Arno. This is a long variety of pasta served with garlic, oil, chili pepper, turnip greens and herrings, which were caught in the river.

Stoccafisso, dried salted cod, which already in ancient times arrived by ship in the port of the city, is another typical fish dish enjoyed in Pisa. It is cooked plain, with the addition of boiled potatoes.

Just a few kilometers from Pisa there are a number of large hunting estates, such as the Massaciuccoli park, where Giacomo Puccini once hunted, and roast game, especially pheasant, is perhaps the most typical main course of Pisa, rivalled only by...