Breaded and Fried Portobello Mushroom Cutlets

As I have related in the introduction to Assunta’s Beans, during his last bachelor year my husband lived in a villa on a hill that overlooked Florence. The villa’s housekeeper, Assunta, had a husband, Pasquale, under whose tutelage Victor learned to identify pinaroli, a delicious mushroom that grew only close to pine trees. Assunta breaded and fried those mushrooms, a treat that I used to look forward to when, during my fall school