Verdure a Buglione

Morena Spinelli has pictures of herself as a little girl at her family’s produce stand in the San Lorenzo Market in Florence in the early 1930s. She vividly remembers when their grapes won a prize that was given by Mussolini himself.

Perhaps that early affinity for vegetables from the family orto was the inspiration for the thick vegetable buglione, a jumble of ingredients, which she serves like a stew. It is her rustic version of the classic buglione of the Sienese flatlands, which