I have to share the pasta I ate this weekend

I forget how much I love Florence sometimes

The most delicious things often come as surprises. While I love all the guts in Italian cuisine, sometimes you don’t know how gritty it’s going to get. How liver will the liver be? How stomach-y will the tripe be?

But, wow, this plate of tagliatelle with Florentine cow guts was amazing.

tagliatelle al lampredotto from Accadì, Florence

You’re probably thinking: you could have gotten a better photo…

I was excited to eat ok?

When my friend Pinta told me we were going to eat pasta with lampredotto, I was wild. I unapologetically love anything quinto quarto - the Italian term for cuts of meat from the less prized parts of the animal.

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