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  Happy Memorial day weekend everyone. I hope you’re planning a for real nice Italian style barbeque. Here’s the way they do it in Genoa.

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Women with Fish

Detail from the Heller Altarpiece, 1507-1509,  Matthais Grunewald I do seem to be particularly drawn to lobster art lately, which, as I see it, is a victimless crime.

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Women with Fish

Sophia Loren in the film Boy on a Dolphin, 1957

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Women with Fish

Seated Woman with Fish, Pablo Picasso, 1942.

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Women with Fish

Fish Stick: Devon Aoki in agent provocateur, 1998

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Mo, my mother, around 1952. She sure could cook. Cinnamon, Nutmeg, and Orange Flower Water Here’s another excerpt from ‘The Making of an Italian Cook’, a memoir I’ve been working on. “We’re completely out of pepper flakes?,” Dick, my father, would say, to no one in particular, while shaking an empty little plastic jar. Shit, [...]

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Women with Fish

Man and Women by Eikoh Hosoe, 1960

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Italian Food Poem

Italian Food A poem by Shel Silverstein Oh, how I love Italian food. I eat it all the time, Not just ’cause how good it tastes But ’cause how good it rhymes. Minestrone, cannelloni, Macaroni, rigatoni, Spaghettini, scallopini, Escarole, braciole, Insalata, cremolata, manicotti, Marinara, carbonara, Shrimp francese, Bolognese, Ravioli, mostaccioli, Mozzarella, tagliatelle, Fried zucchini, rollatini, [...]

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Women with Fish

A woman staring at a fish tank by Henri Matisse

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Mo, center, with neighbors, having a smoke and Strega Festa Here’s another little section from ‘The Making of an Italian Cook’, a book of essays I’ve been working on for a few months. I’ve already posted two other short sections. They’re all still a little rough, but I just thought I’d run pieces of this [...]

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