Lucca is a tiny delicatessen in the heart of the Marina. Very well known for its prepared food counter and sandwiches, I felt a bit displaced as I walked in- a small place with a lot of… “stuff” everywhere! However, just a few minutes of scouring the shelves, and I had found some real treasures [...]
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Formaggio di Fossa, literally pit cheese, is a wonderful oddity of the Romagna area, my native land. Regarded as a delicacy nowadays and served in the most prestigious restaurants countrywide, few know it was quite… created by mistake!
A sharp-tasting pecorino cheese that can be made entirely of sheep milk, or of a mix of sheep [...]
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Named after the highway that cuts Southern Italy, from Naples to Puglia, A16 aims to recreate the flavorful dishes of Southern Italian descent. Hence, they make a very popular pizza in a wood-burning oven, the way it is made in Naples, make their own sausages (when we were there they were filling the sausage casing, [...]
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It’s been since I scraped Steps of Rome off my list of places to go to, in 2002, that I hadn’t had a nice meal in the tourist trap that is North Beach. I keep on trying to talk my friends out of heading there for a decent meal, as I hadn’t found an authentic [...]
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It takes a bit of a splurging mood for me to head to AG Ferrari, however it is the only store that carries many, many items that I routinely need in my kitchen! For example, it is the only place I know of that carries burrata (the mozzarella varietal with a core of soft butter-like [...]
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