knowing my love of food and art, daniela has invited me to a festival this evening. a very fancy festival. the one thing that everybody has in common is the food. >> yeah. this event is about as far as you can get from the wheat threshing festival. here florence's richest and most powerful families have gathered, as they have for centuries, to toast the city's new creative talent from chefs and musicians, to artists hoping to follow in the footsteps of da vinci and michelangelo. you are right now in a situation where, more or less 500 years ago, the medici would have done something like this. so we're going to go and have some food now. she knows me too well. really?