Il Fegato del Salumaio

In venetian ciacolare means to chat; in Venice, a city of narrow streets without cars where people are constantly meeting, ciacolare is everyone’s favorite activity. The daylong exchange of soft, consonant-dropping Venetian patter on the footbridges, by the newsstand, at the café, in the shops is the shuttle that weaves the city’s singular social fabric. Unless you are a stranger, you do not just buy a pound of butter, a loaf of bread, a dozen slices of prosciutto: You have a convers