In this Tuscan town, some cooks are moving away from the stove to prepare meals in energy-saving cooking boxes, a tool lined with thick wool which their grandparents used during World War II.
Gloria Lucchesi cooks some local beans that she prepared using the cooking containers, on Nov. 12, in San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy.Gloria Lucchesi cooks some local beans that she prepared using the cooking containers, on Nov. 12, in San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy.SAN CASCIANO DEI BAGNI, Italy — Russia's invasion of Ukraine — and decision to throttle natural gas exports to Europe — has sent energy prices and utility bills higher.
Sheep graze on sloping pastures in the hilltops that surround this village. The animals are raised for meat, since their wool is poor quality. But Filo & Fibra, a nonprofit cooperative, has found a way to use the sheared fleece.Valerio Muscella for NPRGloria Lucchesi stands in the yard of her house, on Nov. 12, in San Casciano dei Bagni.— which means"thread and fiber" — invited NPR to her large home on the outskirts of town to demonstrate one of the cooking boxes it produces.
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