Long ago, Victor and I were living in Milan. I was teaching biology and mathematics and he was working for the McCann-Erickson advertising agency producing television commercials. On one occasion the crew was working near the Lombard town of Sondrio in Valtellina, the mountainous district backed up against the Alpine wall that separates Italy from Switzerland.
Valtellina is celebrated for robust red wine and robust cooking to go with it. I was fascinated to find so