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Pasta Pluperfect

If the pollsters and retail analysts are correct, you, the sacred American retail shopper, savior of the global market economy, started waiting in lines outside the big box stores on Thanksgiving...

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Supper with Stars

Jewish communities have existed in the Italian peninsula for more than 2,000 years. Long before the Christian era and the time of the Ceasars, Rome was home to many Jews. Later, in the decades after...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Happy Mothers’ Day

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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