I adore shopping at Leo Piazzesi’s stand in the Mercato Centrale. He carries only a few products, all displayed as if at Tiffany’s, each tomato shining, melons cut open for tasting, their profume calling out “Assaggiami…taste me” and the season’s best. Right now, I go to Leo for carciofi, artichokes, layed out like rare flowers on…
Foraging from the Car
The weather here has been so odd, that I haven’t risked walking in the fields to look for wild asparagus. We have had so much rain ( much needed rain) that it would have been a muddy mess. That said, I do know that on the road down the hill from our house, heading into…