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Judith’s Italian West Virginian pastry. Recipe: Pitta ‘Mpigliata, ‘Tallie Style Dear Erica, I’ve just discovered your website and have learned so much in just a few minutes! What a wonderful find after a very fruitless search . . . My great-grandmother was from Reggio-Calabria, and she passed on to us the practice of making a [...]

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Just like breakfast in Italy. Recipe: Orange Flower Pine Nut Torta The flavor of orange flower water haunts my culinary dreams. It’s made from the flowers of bitter oranges, the entire idea of this stuff, including the pretty little bottles it comes in, gets me a little crazy (strangely, the bitter oranges have the sweetest [...]

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John’s Basilicata-Canadian eggplant? Recipe: Melanzane a Scapece Colapinto Style Erica! I love the lost recipes idea. I checked out the link you sent. Awesome. So here’s my question to you.

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A stuffed artichoke for Gloria. Recipe: Stuffed Artichokes with Parsley, White Wine, and Bread Crumbs Ciao Erica, My mother, from Siracusa, made the best stuffed artichokes ever eaten. All I remember is grating the cheese, dicing parsley, and grating stale Italian bread into breadcrumbs. Some recipes I’ve read add green olives, eggs. . . . [...]

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Francesca’s Uncle’s Dish? Recipe: Spaghetti with Parsley, Almond, and Anchovy Pesto Hi, Erica, My Uncle Ollie use to make this seafood pasta dish. It had a green sauce that looked like a pesto sauce but had fish in it or was fish-tasting. He was Sicilian, so maybe that will help. It was served over spaghetti [...]

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My Christmas Eve baccalà. Recipe: Baccalà with Sweet Onion and Little Tomatoes This Christmas I received two e-mails from readers whose Christmas Eve baccalà recipes had gone awry. I think I know why: People don’t often cook salt cod anymore, so when they try tackling a family recipe for a special occasion they don’t bring [...]

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