People in Montepulciano have always lived on farming and this tradition is alive even today, especially regarding food. In the past, meals used to be peasant, made out of few products, such as stale bread and seasonal vegetables. However during the grape, wheat and olive harvestings peasants who took part to those activities would change their eating habits. This was because the workers would spend more than ten hours each day in the fields and therefore farmers would provide them frequent and nutritious meals. The chronicles talk...