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Tomato season
My Irish-American grandmother, the one married to my Italian grandfather, famously snarked that "Italians would eat shit if you put tomato sauc…

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Finding our ancestral village, part 2
The story so far: When we went to trace our Italian roots, we discovered that the information on my great-grandfather’s documents was confusing and c…

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Eating Molise, part 3
A couple days later it was time for a visit to a local flour mill to see their production process and get a pasta-making lesson from the owners. We e…

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Eating Molise, part 2
The day after our eating orgy in Casalciprano, we went to visit the clan behind the Sapori Italiani ("Italian flavors") truffle products l…

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Eating Molise, part 1
During our visit to Molise we had a series of food adventures that underlined for us just how terrific the food of the region is. But we also confron…

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Return to Cantalupo
When I was growing up I didn't know much about my Italian grandfather's story, only that he'd come from somewhere in Italy as a child. L…

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Finding our ancestral village
When we started researching our Italian roots, we didn’t know much about where our family came from. My mother’s grandfather emigrated to the United…

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The mystery of Molise
As part of our effort to gain dual Italian citizenship, our family spent two weeks in the summer of 2017 in Italy's second smallest and probably…

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