Dry-Aged Beef Rice

During our time at Bar Cremaet, our server, Maicol Fracassi, though already drawn in and excited by our game of gin rummy, was also intrigued by the Hemingway project and had read many of his works in Italian. He felt a special connection to A Farewell to Arms, given his Italian heritage. He introduced us to Chef Raphael Jean-Louis Pallenhoff Mendez, of French and Spanish descent, also a reader. The duo wa