Negative Space: Italy
- My Year in Food: 2023
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From Italy to the Ukraine—some of it real, and some through cookbooks—this has been a great year for food.
- The Prince
- Machiavelli’s “The Prince” is an odd bit of ephemera from the sixteenth century. It purports to teach a newly-made prince how to maintain his principality.
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- Review: Ristorante Del Fagioli
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“When I’ve thought about what my last meal on earth would be, something I ponder with alarming regularity, my eternal answer involves dinner at Ristorante Del Fagioli, a traditional trattoria right in the heart of Florence.”
- Pizzeria Brandi
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“I ate some life-changing pizza and then I watched a woman get mugged. That can sum up a lot of days in Naples.”
- It was inevitable that socialized medicine gave up on the elderly with COVID-19
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“…while Spain and Italy are going public about refusing treatment to the elderly, the reality is that the elderly always get less care under socialized medicine. That’s the system, rather than a bug in the system… Unlike free-market medicine which mostly chugs along with care available to everyone, socialized medicine always functions in the equivalent of an emergency environment.”
