Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

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On the road to the fattoria we’d passed a modest billboard that seemed
to epitomize the untranslatable difference between Italy’s food culture
and our own. It’s a statement you just don’t hear from the tourist boards of
America. It promised, simply:

Nostro terra...

E suo sapore.

I’m no expert, but I see what it means: You can taste our dirt.