The same went for salt-baked beets: too tough, but beautifully balanced by tart red grapefruit and aged vinegar.

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It's currently being served with a roasted fig and plum mixture, topped with aged balsamic vinegar.

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Modena, next to Parma, is the epicenter of the gourmet vinegar trade, where Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Modena is made, the good stuff when it comes to balsamic vinegar, to the supermarket junk most Americans (and restaurants) use as dry aged ribeye is to microwaved convenience store burgers.

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