DESTINATION ITALY / dining tips to anchor your trip
By Larry Levine – There are two truisms about dining in Italy: 1) all food is regional, and 2) it’s almost impossible to get a bad meal. In Italy regional can mean city-to-city, or even neighborhood-to-neighborhood. Take tortellini en brodo for instance. I... Read More
MY MOST MEMORABLE MEAL – Is there such a thing as the Best Restaurant or the Best Meal?
By Larry Levine – The notion that something is “the best” of anything gives me pause. Of all the hundreds of pizza joints in which I’ve eaten, how can I know which was the best? Is it possible to recall the taste of every rack of ribs, or plate of foie gras, or... Read MoreMY MOST MEMORABLE MEAL – Home Base, Florence
(MY MOST MEMORABLE MEAL is an occasional feature written by the co-hosts of the restaurant recommendation web site http://www.atLarrys.com) By Larry Dietz – There are people who can recite every course of a great meal they had years ago; I’m not one of them. In... Read More
ESPRESSO FROM THE DUOMO TO HOME
By Larry Dietz, I came to coffee relatively late in life, since my mother drank a perfunctory cup now and then and my father only had a cup after dinner. What they were drinking was already-ground drip coffee, out of a can that was likely to have been sitting open for... Read More
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