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[Family Recipes] Zucchini and pumpkin flower fritters

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When it comes to holidays and festivities, in my family everything revolves around tradition.

We have been celebrating Christmas in the same way and with more or less the same food for years. Every year we gather around the same table, with the same people, and we eat more or less the same dishes.

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Italian Eating Habits: Do Italians Eat In A Healthy Way?

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How can you be so thin when you eat so many carbohydrates? 

This is one of the questions I get asked the most by non-Italians when we chat about Italian eating habits. I actually have no quick answer and I always just reply with a smile and “I don’t know”. But after having been asked such a question so many times, I started thinking about it.

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[Family Recipes] Antipasto piemontese

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Cooking is not just warming food to fill your stomach when you are hungry.

Cooking is choosing ingredients carefully to prepare something healthy and tasty. Cooking is taking the time to prepare things with the people you love and for the people you love. Cooking is sharing your knowledge with others and learning something new. Cooking is making memories for the future.

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10 great Italian vegetarian dishes

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I’ll never get tired of saying it: you can’t really appreciate a trip to Italy without properly tasting its food. 

Food is such a big part of Italian culture that you can’t say you have really seen Italy if you came here and just ate hamburgers and fries.

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[Family recipes] Stuffed Chili Peppers

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I am baaaaaaack!

As you may know if you are a subscriber of my newsletter, I have been on holiday. My husband and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary this year and we wanted to do something special.

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Two easy and healthy pasta recipes

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Have you ever heard of Joe Bastianich?

Son of Lidia Bastianich, the author of a number of best-selling cookbooks, he is a restaurateur, wine producer, FOX’s Masterchef former judge, runner, musician, book writer – you name it.

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