About Antonietta

In the medieval town of San Casciano dei Bagni, out in the Italian countryside, lives a cook named Antonietta.

She learned to cook from her mother, who in turn learned it from hers.

All her life she has carried wood to the hearth, walked to the local butcher to choose the best cut, made fresh pasta from egg and flour, pulled vegetables from the garden, milled tomatoes for sauce, and hung the wild boar her husband Giovanni shoots each autumn.

Day after day, week after week, she has quietly kept the Tuscan tradition in her own way. By cooking for her family, and for the guests staying in the villas scattered across the hillsides.

Year after year she has made people happy with real, simple, honest food.

No articles have been written about her. No prizes have been awarded and no stars given. Those who stand at the hearth and go about it quietly do not always get the most attention.

Everything we serve here comes from her kitchen — and her forebears’.