Antionetta's double-loggia cantina is a just few steps from mine tucked away in a little vicolo off via Fontana. They were once both dwellings of a sort. Hand cut into tufa rock a hundred or more years ago, the grotto caves were gradually enhanced with terra-cotta floors and oak beamed lofts. Arched stalls & hand hewn wood boxes built to house the family pig chickens & other live food stuffs. Cubby holes laid in for kitchen utensils. The comforts of home? Now they resemble brigands roosts. Housing a world of odds & ends collected over a lifetime (or several) ... Her's is a lot cooler.
