Prosecco East

Flora
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)
c.1515-1520. Oil on canvas. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

My friend Sofia grew up with her extended family, in a fabulous house on the Grand Canal in Venice. With her fair complexion and luxuriant red hair, she could easily have stepped out of a painting by Titian or Tintoretto, or any of the great Venetian painters of the Renaissance.

Sofia and I have known each other for twenty years, and even though you can know somebody for so long, sometimes it is easy to forget what they are actually like. Sofia has always called the shots in terms of food, where we should eat. Usually, I don’t mind because I know how much she loves Asian food, for example. But when I asked her to join me for a Bellini, I assumed she’d understand it would have to be a restaurant that actually served a Bellini.