Tag | Italian

Cookie contest: the envelope, please

    Our thanks to all of you who took the time to write and submit your cookies with a story. Your stories tugged at our heartstrings and made us smile. Your recipes made us drool. In the end, it was Adri Barr Crocetti’s vivid recollection of her Nonna Angela Barra Crocetti and Nonna’s fried …

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Feast of the Seven Fishes: only in America

Ask Gabriella Marchetti about the Feast of the Seven Fishes and she’ll probably give you a look like you just served her a bad clam. My mother, who was born and raised in Italy’s Abruzzo region but has lived in the U.S. since the 1950s, has always maintained a distance between her own Italian culinary …

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