Start with hand-pulled mozzarella in several varieties, including salted, smoked, and stracciatella. The cheese is served with accoutrements — grilled scallions, eggplant, Lucky’s tomatoes and more — and makes an excellent addition to other starters like meatballs with sheep’s milk ricotta and octopus with farro, celery, pickled radish, pine nuts and mint pesto. House made pastas range from bucatini with rabbit ragu (shown above) to tagliatelle “arrabbiata” with lobster, tomato and stracciatella. Wood-fired pizzas include sauces red to white, but don’t miss the wood-fired mains — especially the spit-roasted lamb leg with carrots, watercress, pine nut and raisin panzanella. End your meal with ice cream from OddFellows Ice Cream Co.
Tag: italy
Italy becomes an internet banana republic
is there an up to date list of banana republics somewhere? uk, italy and lots of other “free” countries have put large-scale censorship into place recently. as always, think of the children
Anna maria
The vast majority of what is now in the Uffizi Gallery, Pitti Palace, Palazzo Vecchio, the Laurenziana library, Magliabecchiana library, Palatine library, a large chunk of the Bargello and everything in the smaller suburban Medici villas would be gone. Florence as we know it today would not exist. Think of how prescient Anna Maria was to recognize the value of her family holdings to city tourism.
anna maria was one badass woman.
Michelangelo vs Leonardo
2 of history’s most famous artists didn’t like each other at all. 2 beloved painters were each asked to create murals on opposing walls in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. There’s da Vinci: painter of “The Last Supper” and the “Mona Lisa.” He’s established, revered and confident. In the other corner, the young upstart, Michelangelo: insecure, moody and pious. He’s finished the “David,” but has yet to paint the Sistine Chapel.
Forecast liabilitiy
If you thought rationality is only under attack in the US, think again.
“The verdict is perverse and the sentence ludicrous”. It called for protests against the sentence’s severity and at scientists being criminalized “for the way their opinions were communicated”.
Leading political figures in Italy suggested that the case had blurred the lines between science and public life. “The risk is that doubt will no longer be allowed to form part of scientific judgement. The role of science is not the same as politics or administration.”
After Berlusconi
italy is systemically corrupt / messed up, the departure of berlusconi will change exactly nothing. for background, check out this article:
There is a naive tendency among foreigners to dismiss Italians as incompetents who are simply in need of a little outside discipline. Nothing could be further from the truth. The system, or myriad systems that govern Italian life at every level, are in fact highly organised and impervious to change. They are almost impossible for outsiders to comprehend.
Burrata
Crime is #1 in Italy
Revenue raked in by Italy’s mob surged 40% last year, turning crime into the nation’s No. 1 business
Tax Transparency
Italians were surprised, and in some cases outraged, to discover their income levels were available for public viewing on an Internet site. As part of a crack-down on tax evasion, the outgoing center-left government made public every citizen’s declared taxable income on the state’s tax website
Now this is one area of privacy that is way overrated. good for them.
Cacio e Pepe
first italian place in nyc that sucketh not
Gregor J. Rothfuss 