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Wooden cooking box with pea soup (Photo: Gloria Lucchesi)

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Italians employ ancient cooking contraption to deal with rising gas costs

Wooden cooking box with pea soup (Photo: Gloria Lucchesi)

While Italian families grapple with rising energy prices, inhabitants of a Tuscan village have reverted to old cooking techniques used by their ancestors to cut down on costs.

Instead of gas they use wool to prepare succulent meals.

In San Casciano dei Bagni, where just 1,000 people live amid green rolling hills, ancient Roman baths and sheep-grazing fields, a team of environmentalist ladies have dug through cellars to find their grandparents' tips on how to build and use so-cal...

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Author Bio

Silvia Marchetti is a Rome-based freelance reporter. She covers finance, economics, travel and culture for a wide range of international media.

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