Buccellato Taddeucci

This guide to Buccellato Taddeucci in Lucca opens with an unlikely weapon: a fourteen eighty-five court record describing a woman who poisoned her husband with buccellato, the same ring-shaped raisin bread stacked behind this glass. You'll hear why an everyday loaf, carried after Mass and stitched into Sunday rituals, made such an effective disguise, and how by fifteen seventy-eight the city was already taxing its sale to help rebuild flood-damaged embankments along the river Serchio. The guide follows the bread down to the Taddeucci family, who opened this shop on Piazza San Michele in eighteen eighty-one. Ask about the starter still kept behind the counter today.