You might have heard me mention that we have a food truck and that we sell fried fish. It’s a pocket sized, Piaggio Ape (3-wheeler) and our menu is as equally small. We sell calamari and anchovies – the fish that our region of the Cinque Terre is known for. For the most part, we’ve gotten pretty cluey when […]
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I know it’s truly outa vogue to talk about another season’s bounty, but a jolt back to colder weather today, had me thinking about baked, woodsy, mushrooms for lunch. It is autumn (not spring) when the local forest is chock-full of mushroom foragers, and the market stalls are overcrowded with funghi. But even today at
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Having lived here for more than a decade, and with my Italian citizenship day fast approaching, I’ve been feeling the need to have “my own”, go-to polpette or meatball recipe. Comical, yes (am I secretly fearing a recipe pop-quiz on the day of the ceremony?), but nonetheless, on my mind. If I was going to
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