Use It In: Soups, stews, tomato and egg dishes, salads and salad dressing, and of course,
Italian dishes like the chicken Caprese pictured above.
For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence; but the bank failed, and his father, Ludovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni,
briefly took a government post in Caprese, where Michelangelo was born.
Our lunch turned to predinner salads(she ordered a Caprese) and glasses of rosé as the sun set on our booth,
which punctuated a long row of empty tables- the shabby chic restaurant affording us a quiet retreat.