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Sleeping Bean Salad

Danielle Oteriby Danielle Oteri June 24, 2011

“My brother always had a Dickensian knack for naming things. One of his childhood best was christening our family’s white bean salad ‘sleeping beans’ because they required a good overnight soaking.”

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Rollin’ with Porchetta

Good. Food. Stories. Contributorby Good. Food. Stories. Contributor June 17, 2011

“Traditionally, porchetta is a whole deboned pig that is salted, stuffed, and then spit-roasted. When Danielle and I lived in Florence, we used to walk out of our way to a hole-in-the-wall spot that served porchetta sandwiches.”

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Italian Easter Bread

Danielle Oteriby Danielle Oteri April 20, 2011

“Pizza Chiena, which many Italian-Americans and Sopranos fans might know as “Pizza Gain” because of the Neapolitan accent, is a labor intensive, expensive, not-for-any-ol’-day, invite-people-over-to-help-you event that is absolutely worth your time and effort. It can be a religious exercise unto itself.”

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Hot Tiella for Cold Days

Danielle Oteriby Danielle Oteri February 16, 2011

“Elsewhere in Italy the word tiella means “pan,” but in Gaeta it conjures up a crisp pizza dough stuffed with the freshest seafood and salty olives. You know how they say that the Eskimos have like a thousand different words for snow? In Southern Italy, a similar paradigm applies to pizza.”

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Penne Vodka for the One You Love

Casey Barberby Casey Barber February 14, 2011

“It was the greatest first date of my life. A stranger picked me up at the airport and took me out for a big bowl of penne vodka.”

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Book Review: Entertaining with the Sopranos

Danielle Oteriby Danielle Oteri January 21, 2011

“If you have ever attended an Italian wedding and wondered about that tray of rainbow cookies called Venetians, they’re in this book. Or if you remember your Italian roommate from college talking about Christmas Eve dinner, his mother’s recipe for Spaghetti with Red Clam Sauce is also here.”

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