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Cinco de Mayo
Aside from enjoying good food, we also love to tell the stories behind it. As we were discussing whether we had anything to offer in celebration of Cinco de Mayo, we reached back to our cookbook,...
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Panzanella
Hurricane season calls for comfort food, something to soothe us during days of relentless what-if TV coverage and weather app updates on the wind and rain of the latest named storm. Ice cream may well...
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Almost Italian Easter Eggs
What the Sarasota Easter Bunny brought to the Almost Italian locavores Whether you call the oval fruits of Solanum lycopersicum San Marzano, Roma, or simply “sauce tomatoes,” these are part of the...
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Turkey Tetrazzini
On the day after Thanksgiving, we thought we’d share with you an excerpt from our new book. Turkey Tetrazzini is what home cooks of the Mad Men generation did with their turkey leftovers. Buon...
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Book Launch
At last, we’ve finally published Almost Italian in full color for Kindle. It’s now available on Amazon, and the Nook & iPad editions will be out very soon. So, start a pot of water boiling for your...
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Seven Fishes 2015
Seven Fishes 2015: One down, six to go… Photo Copyright © 2015, Skip Lombardi For a host of reasons, your AlmostItalian.com team of two is far behind the proverbial eight-ball this year. That doesn’t...
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The Calamartini
Eccolo!!! The Calamartini Image © 2015, Skip Lombardi The Calamartini® —from the people who taught you how to cook scungilli... We’re not opposed to evolution or fusion, but in this age of bacon...
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What Would Pope Francis Cook?
Was it only two years ago that we first presented our recipe for Pasta e Ceci to celebrate Pope Francis’s ascension to the Papacy? The peripatetic Holy Father has covered a lot of ground since then and...
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Tenerumi Redux
Given our interest in Italian-American ingredients, yesterday we pounced upon this lovely basket of squash tendrils at Chase’s Daily in Belfast, Maine. We couldn’t help noting that surrounding this...
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Pastiera di Grano
The flavor and textures of Pastiera di Grano, chewy grains and creamy ricotta baked in a slightly sweet crust, are of another world. You might even say a bygone world, one where households practiced...
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Buon Natale
We realize we haven’t exactly been prolific posters for a while. We hope to rectify that in the coming year. In the meantime, enjoy what seems to have become our annual Christmas card image: the sign...
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The Right to Bare Arms
Ordinarily, we’re not fans of tattoos. But every once in a while… Copyright © 2013, Skip Lombardi Send to Kindle
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Happy Mothers’ Day
Marilyn Monroe and her mother in-law, Rosaria (Mercurio) DiMaggio Send to Kindle
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Cinco de Mayo, Greek Easter, & Beyond…
As soon as we’d published Volume I of Almost Italian (Bosphorus Books, 2012) we knew that we’d left a lot unexplored. But first, because today is Orthodox Easter, we wish to lift a chilled tumbler of...
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Between the Saints: San Patrizio to San Giuseppe
For the food-focused, the period from Valentine’s Day until Easter is always busy. Depending on the calendar and personal piety, one may live and dine contemplatively for a few weeks, from the end of...
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Vatican Rag
Inspired by the incisive reportage of our favorite Roman, National Public Radio’s Sylvia Poggioli, we realized, that we, too, had to give some squid ink to a burning topic, especially after the Wall...
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Pizzelle
To further sweeten Valentine’s Day, take a cue from those who like to serve everything with amore: Italians have the perfect mate for anything from a glass of Prosecco to a slice of semifreddo or plate...
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Pizza Strips?
Here is a dish whose whole vastly exceeds the sum of its parts. Unassuming in its simplicity, cudduruni appeases the appetite until the serving of a more substantial meal. It’s a favorite at Christmas...
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Scungilli
Our most popular AlmostItalian.com post, with thousands of page-views year ’round (but especially just before Christmas), Scungilli put us on the map. Earlier in 2012, when we published Almost...
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Kitchen Props
Like most food bloggers, we have parallel occupations. One of us has three different business cards; the other has six (honest). And we share two others… Since we were both born under Gemini, the sign...
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