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Breaking Bread in L’Aquila

By Adri | Filed in Books, Musings, Personalities, Recipes, Reviews

Before dawn on the morning of April 6, 2009 the town of L’Aquila in Italy’s Abruzzo region was struck by a violent 6.3 magnitude earthquake, terremoto in Italian. Townspeople awoke in terror as the walls of their homes, businesses, government buildings and churches collapsed around them. The air was cold, but the people of L’Aquila [… Read More]

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Espresso Mocha Float

By Adri | Filed in Beverages, Dessert, Musings, Recipes

Last week I thought Fall was here. It was cold. I needed a jacket in the mornings. Today it is over 100 degrees. Oh my. And Bart is buried in a mountain of paperwork. He needed a break and some refreshment. So here‘s what I came up with – an Espresso Mocha Float. It hit [… Read More]

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Mom’s Ravioli: Part One – Old Cooks and Old Recipes

By Adri | Filed in La storia di Crocetti, Musings, Personalities, Recipes

That is the Crocetti Family Ravioli recipe in its entirety as my grandmother, Angela Barra Crocetti, (known as Mom) dictated it to my mother, Josephine. My mother, known to all who loved her as Jeff, transcribed the recipe in the endsheet of her 1962 edition of the American classic, Joy of Cooking. There are no [… Read More]

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Crostoli

By Adri | Filed in Dessert, La storia di Crocetti, Musings, Personalities, Recipes

“Mamma, Che buona!” My father William Anthony Crocetti, born Guglielmo, did not speak English until he went to grade school. So I have no doubt that was what he exclaimed every time he ate the crostoli his mother made in her kitchen at 319 South Sixth Street in their south end neighborhood of Steubenville, Ohio. [… Read More]

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The LA County Fair

By Adri | Filed in Musings, Recipes

“Calling all chefs, bakers, and food lovers… join your fellow culinary artists in one of the many contests and competitions offered this year at the L.A. County Fair!” That’s what it says on the L.A. County Fair website Culinary Styles Contests and Competitions page. I read the article about the Fair in Thursday’s Los Angeles [… Read More]

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