Melba's Jammin' > wrote:

> I've completed entering our meal pictures from our recent visit to
> Tuscany and Liguria. There are 19 notes with photos in descending
> chronological order. They are at http://www.jamlady.eboard.com

Some very evocative photos there. :-)

The simple pasta squares you had in Lucca are called "tacconi" and are a
Luccan speciality. The name comes from "tacco", "heel" (as in shoe),
presumably because the dried pasta is supposed to be as hard as a heel.
I have a package of Conforti brand tacconi here.

Bubba