Start with a salumi and cheese platter, matched up with a good, sturdy Barbera, wood-baked pizza with extra meat, and finish up with cannoli and a filthy-dark port.

And what the hell, a really good cigar. I ain’t running the next day!


Steven Gomez is an indie writer in the best (or worst) pulp tradition.
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