As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.
“I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.”
“I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.”