286812 Sun Dec 31 14:52:29 -0800 2000 1 27 General Chowhounding Topics 0 1539470 Mmmmm....lardo. Cesare Casella started our dinner with a plate of this when we went to see him, back when he was still working the family restaurant outside of Lucca. Did anyone else stand at the open fridge as a kid, scraping a knife over the end of a stick of salted butter, letting the curls melt on your tongue? It's like that, only better. The link below is to an article in the 12/31/2000 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle, by Patty Untermam, about the Slow Food convivia in October,2000. So much to eat!! Anyone else planning on going to the Salone de Gusto in 2002? Christine Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/31/CM28381.DTL Sun Dec 31 14:52:29 -0800 2000 0 Christine DiBona (not CHRIS DiBona (he's the husband..)) 1 1539477 Amazing! I was just reading about lardo last night in Lorenza de'Medici's Antipasti cookbook. I gave it to my sister for Christmas, and she was kind enough to hand it back to me so I could read it. (g) Sun Dec 31 17:02:59 -0800 2000 1539470 0 Melanie Wong