How to Store Radicchio

Keep radicchio loosely wrapped in plastic in the vegetable drawer of a fridge for up to a week. Is the radicchio there for taste, to flaunt classiness or simply for a change of color? Too often, its the latter. Recipes that call for a leaf of radicchio in the presentation are hauntingly reminiscent of the lettuce cups of yesteryear. In using radicchio this way, a really sensational vegetable is abused.