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Italian leather workshop with handmade bags and tools

My private Italy: Italian leather and the Italians behind it

In Florence, the streets still remember who used to work in them. Walk out of Piazza Santa Croce towards the river and read the white marble plaques on the corners: Via delle Conce, the street of the tanneries; Via dei Conciatori, the street of...
White and black Italian truffles on a wooden board

My private Italy: His Majesty, the Truffle

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I remember the first time a guide let me hold a white truffle before it went into the scale. It was heavier than I expected, cold, faintly damp, and it smelled like nothing I could name — garlic, hay, wet earth, something almost animal...