“. . . the desire her whole person expressed was that of communicating to me what she was tasting: communicating with me through flavors, or communicating with flavors through a double set of taste buds, hers and mine. . . .”
Italo Calvino, "Under the Jaguar Sun."

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Ferdinando’s Foccacieria: Old-School Sicilian Food in Brooklyn

Ferdinando’s Foccacieria isn’t a bread shop. It also isn’t one of those classic Italian-American red-sauce restaurants. Opened in 1904, Ferdinando’s Foccacieria makes real Sicilian food and, though a relic from over 100 years ago, still makes it really well. We began with antipasti, as you do. This platter has pickled cauliflower and peppers, cold fried […]

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