A Meal To Remember
Friday, October 30th, 2009“La Cantinetta di Rignana”.
Chianti region, Tuscany, Italy.
Dining al fresca, overlooking the rolling hills of vineyards and olive groves glowing in legendary, late-afternoon Tuscan light. Like stepping into a fairytale.
The food, so simple. All made from fresh, local ingredients. Shown here is home-made caprini cheese and wild-boar carpaccio. We also enjoyed gooey oven-baked tomino cheese, and mushroom linguine. The pasta was almost stark in its simplicity – homemade noodles, local porcini mushrooms, and a drizzle of good olive oil. I still recall its fresh, earthy smell.
The experience reinforced something I heard once: good quality ingredients speak for themselves and hardly require any preparation, but even the best chef can’t make poor quality ingredients taste good.
Love, love, love.