Welcome to Open Tab , a weekly column covering the news, gossip, and stories that have stayed open in my tabs all week. Last time we covered the end of corporate cookie chains .

A couple colleagues returned from a trip to Italy this week. Were they raving about the world-class food? The beautiful views? Their truffle hunting expedition? No, they came into the office chatting about the big wine heist that, according to them, everyone in Italy was talking about.

Basically, a group of men stole 30,000 bottles of wine from a warehouse in Tuscany, estimated to be worth $5.5 million. “Could they simply be passionate oenophiles who plan to drink the 30,000 bottles of Tuscan red themselves?” asks The New York Times . Ever the optimists over there.

Is there a single recipe that you love enough to make your legacy forevermore? That’s presumably the idea behind the recipes people have carved into their tombstones, which, yes, is a real thing that happens quite often.…