Italian pottery is favored for so many reasons. Just seeing “made in Italy” on the bottom of a Vietri hand-glazed pastry bowl transports us across the Atlantic to narrow, cobbled sun-streaked lanes. We bask in the Italian sun and take shady refuge under a grove of olive trees with the Mediterranean Sea in full view. We might have a picnic lunch in tow, or just be taking a small break in the afternoon looking forward to our dinner which will be served outdoors,
replete with pasta that is fragrant with the freshest olive oil and herbs in a sauce that speaks of tomato, with perhaps a slight hint of anchovy, cooked just right to make the flavors tantalizing.
Add authentic Parmesan Reggiano; light, red wines, and white wines that do not fight with figs and gorgonzola dressed in a bit of honey and Balsamic vinegar. Breads and rolls baked to a paler tint of ancient tile roofs.
Colorful, flavorful, visual, the senses tempted—that is the creed of Vietri.
Lively and loud conversation and appetite robusto!
Serve it up on authentic handcrafted, hand-painted Vietri plates and bowls. Bring the steaming clams to the table on your biggest Vietri platter.
And make the toast: to your host and hostess, to the bride and groom, to the 90th birthday or the 9th; and make your toasts in our wonderful Vietri glassware.
Pass the Vietri serving bowls around. Scoop out pasta and glazed pieces of chicken and tender slices of lamb. Talk politics and religion with good humor.
Savor every single bite.
And most importantly of all, savor a night of bright and lively fun, a night of bright and lively good-natured tolerance.
And make another toast.
Vietri. Savor it all.
