Gabrielle Hamilton on The Beauty of The Negroni

Originally published on Food Republic , September, 2015. “Rome?” was all the text said. My reply: “Yes.” This is how my 12-year friendship with chef Gabrielle Hamilton works. She asks, I don’t question and vice versa. We met one night when my pal Anthony Bourdain took me to her New York City restaurant Prune to explain the genealogy of the chef world. This was in the days that paper covered the…