Sometimes traveling can inspire you to live a little differently back home. And sometimes, a visitor can help you see your own home in a new way. That was the case when a mentor and old master came to town recently.

“I realized that through my life, I carried in my heart and on my palate the food I grew up eating,” said Dario Cecchini, the famous butcher of Tuscany, spreading his hands above the pig and cow he had just butchered and would soon help cook at Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse.