Zia made pranzo (lunch) for us today. She used fresh
tomatoes, basil and onions to make a nice Sunday gravy complete with brasciola.
She served it over tagliatelle pasta. I topped off my meal with a little vino
bianco (white wine) made in my father’s hometown of Torremaggiore. Fortore is a
brand put out by the town cooperative, where famiglia nostra (our family) takes
their grapes each year. Some grapes are squeezed to make this wine, and others
are sold to wine makers in Tuscany, where they are pressed, fermented, bottled
and sold to mostly Americans at about $15 per bottle or more. Fortore was only
2 Euros. Sunday, July 22, 2012
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Zia made pranzo (lunch) for us today. She used fresh
tomatoes, basil and onions to make a nice Sunday gravy complete with brasciola.
She served it over tagliatelle pasta. I topped off my meal with a little vino
bianco (white wine) made in my father’s hometown of Torremaggiore. Fortore is a
brand put out by the town cooperative, where famiglia nostra (our family) takes
their grapes each year. Some grapes are squeezed to make this wine, and others
are sold to wine makers in Tuscany, where they are pressed, fermented, bottled
and sold to mostly Americans at about $15 per bottle or more. Fortore was only
2 Euros. 