Ice cream
The food of Venice is as much about fresh fruit as it is about fish. Peaches, pears, sweet cherries, figs, grapes, and melons perfume the market. Some simple poached fruit with cookies is all it takes for dessert. "We think Americans mostly like cake, but when we serve a fruit dessert like this one at Remi, everyone loves it." Francesco admits. It calls for the sweetest, most intense cherries of the season, one of the fruits that Francesco says are as flavorful and richly perfumed in America as they are in Italy. When buying cherries look for those with flexible green stems and pick them out one at a time so none are bruised or have soft spots.
