“But see what I have brought you: it is fagioli al fiasco sotto la cenere.” She handed him a bowl of what looked like white paste. He didn’t understand the Italian words in her dialect, except that “fagioli” was beans, and this did not look like beans—more like oatmeal. He didn’t think he’d ever seen an oat when he was in Florence, and certainly nobody ate oatmeal for breakfast.
The rest of Italy calls the Tuscans “bean eaters”, because so much of their diet is based on beans. This would have been the classic peasant dish—cooked beans that were then placed in a jar in the embers of the fire overnight so it is cooked slowly to a mush and then mixed with olive oil.
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