In a comment on my chicken verdicchio posting, Max Vasilatos noted that the dish was “a piccata twist”, and in e-mail Victor Steinbok expanded on this theme, observing a family similarity between scallopine/scallopini dishes with a tomato-based sauce, piccata dishes (with lemon-caper sauce), and marsala dishes (with a marsala wine sauce). Typically, all are based on … Continue reading Food families