Friday, May 11, 2007

Pizza

I am too scattered right now to manage an entire Friday Five, but I have to say a few words about pizza. Chicago or New York? Neither.

Italian pizza has a crisp, thin crust, and comes to the table unsliced, to be eaten with a knife and fork. Sometimes it has red sauce on it, sometimes not. You can get any or all of the ingredients that are familiar to us, but the sausage is spicier, the black olives bigger and better, and the funghi might be porcini. We had delicious pizzas with pears, gorgonzola, and walnuts, too.

Last Saturday we sat with four companions in a Cortona restaurant called Fu Fluns (the Etruscan name for Dionysus) and had a late lunch that lasted about three hours. We ate pizza (mine had mozzarella, mushrooms, and black truffles) and pasta, passed our plates back and forth ("You have to taste this"), drank fabulous triple-fermented Belgian beer, talked about everything, and laughed. And then laughed some more.

I will probably forget what I saw at the Uffizi, or the mosaics at St. Mark's, before I forget that lunch.

6 comments:

Lori said...

Black truffles on pizza and triple fermented beer? Sounds like heaven. Probably tasted like it too.

And how did they get "Fu Fluns" from Dionysus? There has to be a good story there.

Can't wait for the pictures!

DogBlogger said...

Whoo-hoo! Sounds like you had a blast!

Glad you're back, and will be happy to hear more about it!

Anonymous said...

I enjoyed Italian pizza when I was in Rome many years ago. I also liked that wine came free with the meals...water, you had to pay for :)

zorra said...

Alas, the wine is no longer free...

seethroughfaith said...

LOVED the last comment.

Leisurely lunches are the best thing I know!

Teri said...

I must admit that I have forgotten what I saw at the Uffizi, but I could probably detail EVERY MEAL of 7 days in Italy....