Food & Wine – Venetian cooking prizes freshness and restraint and is centred around a handful of ingredients — sweet seafood, cozy polenta, tender rice, fresh herbs, and good butter. Centuries of Eurasian trade have brought warm notes of cinnamon, clove, and pepper into dishes, while the city’s penchant for bitters and vinegar creates the signature sweet-and-sour balance of classics such as sarde in saor.
