My friend in Baltimore just sent this:

"So.....I stumble into this hole-in-the-wall Italian bakery near my new office downtown today, and met the mom-n-pop proprietors of this shop.

It is a tiny bakery called Piedigrotta that has cookies, cakes, bread and--yes--tiramisu everywhere. But, it was lunchtime so I asked for a sandwich (no menus or anything like that). So the lady (Brunna Iannaconne) went into the back and made me an Italian cold cut panini on a fresh, homemade (of course) Italian roll.

I talked to them for a while, and it turns out that they claim to have INVENTED tiramisu!

So when I got back to the office I checked wikipedia, and it mentioned this guy! It had a link to a Washington Post article that you have to read.

BTW, the sandwich was UNBELIEVABLE!"

I love Baltimore (in a shallow and superficial way, but also in a deep and profound way; totally different reasons). What has the Tampa Bay area invented so I can stop being so jealous?