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    TASTE OF VENICE

    Jul 21, 2020 4 minutes
    BY NILS BERNSTEIN
    PHOTOS BY PENNY DE LOS SANTOS
    FOOD & PROP STYLING BY JUDY HAUBERT

    The Grand Canal and Piazza San Marco are beautiful, but you haven’t really experienced Venice until you’ve snacked on cicchetti in the city’s many bàcari, or wine bars. This all-day finger food, a cousin of Spain’s tapas and Portugal’s petiscos, is meant to be enjoyed with one or more ombre, or shadows, which are small pours of wine often served from a tap.

    A cicchetti selection almost always includes sandwiches like triangular tramezzini, open-faced crostini and an assortment of deep-fried morsels. Practically anything that can be consumed in a bite or three

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