White truffles and Tuscan impressionists

Tastes and sights at the 53rd White Truffle Festival in San Miniato, plus a spoiler for 2025!

This is the time of year I look forward to most in Tuscany. White truffle Festival time. But it’s not just for the white truffles, it’s all the autumn produce of mid November and the start of the winter vegetables that I love so much, chestnuts (cooked into pancakes or just roasted), spicy and dense panforte, the whiff of smoke from chimneys as fireplac…