Regional food, particularly pasta, cured meats and cheese. Tamburini's is a spectacular deli in a city famous for its sensuous appetite. One counter is a white expanse of cheese, another a wall of cured meats. You can take the food away for picnics and presents, or eat at the self-service restaurant. Others are strong and flexible enough to use as curtains.
Italian papers are another speciality.
A man who restores pre-1500 books for the Vatican once told the owner she had the best selection of papers he had ever seen. This shop is run by the Institute for Blind People in Berlin, which has had a workshop making traditional brushes, matting and wickerwork for nearly 100 years. In the late 1990s, business was slow and a design company across the road offered to help. After studying the methods of the workshop, it came up with new uses for traditional brushes, joining bottle brushes together to make a bristly fruit bowl and turning circular scrubbers into egg-cups. In just nine months, business trebled, and the products are now sold all over the world.