Torta di Verdura

Here’s comfort food all dressed up for a party. Tall, thin, and elegant Laura Mansi Salom grew up in the Palazzo Mansi in Lucca with three cooks in the kitchen and a personal waiter for each family member. They sat down to multiple-course meals with four or five wines twice a day and stayed at table for hours on end.

“We’ve had a revolution,” she exclaims with delight. She knows what the best food is and she loves to entertain with dazzling