Word: tuscan
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...RICCARDO MATTEINI, co-owner of Tuscan textile firm Gruppo Colle, on Italy's inflexible labor environment and competition from Chinese exports
During lunch, try Via Matta’s wonderful grilled Paninos—the Prosciutto, robiola, tomato, and truffle ($14) is the perfect combination of crisp bread, seductive cheese, and achingly ripe tomatoes. Accompanied by Tuscan fries—crisp half-moons of potatoes dusted with rosemary and salt—the sandwich makes an ideal midday meal...
...Leonardo Da Vinci's Alberto Antinoni, hit stores last year and is similarly higher priced. Like Pont d'Avignon, Da Vinci has the slick packaging of Gallo's other imports. Here too the taste is fruity, but with the tannins and acidity one should expect in an authentic Tuscan...
...sword, in a fight over a wager placed on a tennis match. Badly wounded, facing a murder charge and a sentence of death, he fled Rome, the scene of his early triumphs as a painter. After a four-year struggle to return, he died, possibly of typhus, on a Tuscan beach. Although the papal pardon he sought for years was finally granted, he did not live to learn the news. All through that complicated exile, while circling among Naples, Malta and Sicily, Caravaggio managed to sustain and even deepen his intuitions about light, shadow and pictorial drama. The evidence...
...dinner. Picchi calls his new labor of love a Circo-lo?a play on the Italian for circus and club. Picchi, 50, clearly relishes greeting guests and cooking with his crew in the open kitchen, announcing the arrival of fragrant tureens of saffron risotto, polenta with cinnamon and thick Tuscan soups like farinata (with cornmeal and black cabbage). Afterward, the chef presents the show. "I'm having fun here now," he says, "but Il Cibr?o is towing everything." (39-055) 200 1492; www.teatrodelsale.com