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Growing up on the east coast, and specifically in Connecticut, there were a handful of foods that when I now described to people seem very very strange. I love birch beer, for example, but when I moved to Michigan I …

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We went to the Italian Feast last weekend, and there was no baked ziti anywhere to be found. This made us sad, and so I agreed to make it for Sunday dinner this past weekend! Of course, Trader Joe’s didn’t …

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Merry Christmas, everyone! For Christmas Eve dinner in my family, we celebrate with a Feast of Seven Fishes, as the Italians of Southern Italy. This year, we had squid, crab, lobster, scallops, shrimp, mussels, and clams. We steam the clams …

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