Bitter Treviso radicchio, young Asiago, pear and toasted walnuts create a balanced Veneto salad with a bright white wine vinaigrette.

Insalata di Anguria, Radicchio, Caprino e Noci (Italian Watermelon, Radicchio, Goat Cheese and Walnut Salad) This is a salad built on a disagreement. Watermelon is sweet, wet and yielding. Radicchio is bitter, dry and stubborn. Put them on a plate without preparation and the melon floods the leaves while the leaves flatten the melon. The recipe is the work of getting the two to negotiate, and almost all of it happens before anything is dressed. Fresh caprino is the mediator.

Crespelle Gratinate con Salsiccia, Radicchio e Scamorza (Italian Baked Crepes with Sausage, Radicchio and Scamorza) This is the loudest of the baked crespelle, and the one where the wrapper has the hardest job. Inside it sits crumbled pork sausage browned hard, radicchio wilted just far enough to lose its rawness but not its bite, and cubes of scamorza that melt into distinct pockets instead of dissolving. Three assertive ingredients against a membrane of egg and milk a milli