The Morning Table

Breakfast, taken seriously — estate fruit, dark chocolate, and the original biscuit.

Dinner gets all the gifts. This box argues for the other meal: apricots from an estate's own orchard, sweetened with grapes instead of sugar; a dark chocolate cream built on that estate's olive oil; and the twice-baked almond biscuit Prato has made since 1858, in its hand-tied blue paper.

The uses take no teaching — the spreads on the morning bread, the cantucci dipped in the coffee — which is exactly what mornings require.

It suits the beginnings that happen at breakfast: new homes, weddings, the first quiet mornings after either.