The Pull of Italy: An Explanation of, or at Least a Discourse on, an Obsession
Just what is it about Italy? The sheer, sheer beauty? Or … The turbulent history The grottoed mushroom-rank earth The …
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Idylls of Cuisine, #60
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Pandolce: From Liguria with Love, Thanks to Laura Schenone
Laura Schenone, author of the soulful The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken and the scholarly (and prize-winning) A Thousand Years …
No Thanks to Marco Polo: An Encyclopedia of Italy’s Pasta Shapes
Marco Polo returned to Italy from his Chinese travels in 1296. The myth, legend, what have you, credits him with …
Saints, Souls, and Haints: Honey Cakes
Some interesting comments from 1845 about All Souls’ Day, by Charles Knight in Penny Magazine of the Society for the …
