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Harrison's avatar

Love this! Reminds me of the Mortadella Focaccia sandwich recipe I adapted from L.A.-based Roman cuisine restaurant Mother Wolf for easy home cooking!

check it out:

https://thesecretingredient.substack.com/p/recreating-evan-funkes-la-mortazza

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Marsha's avatar

Adolescence was stunning. A hard topic, but as you said, the acting (those kids!!!) and film making was extraordinary.

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Elizabeth Minchilli's avatar

Agree!!

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Domenica Marchetti's avatar

Team Ponte for sure. Years (decades) ago, I audited a fiction-writing class at Princeton. Jodi Picoult was in the class. Even then, her stories were ripped from the headlines. Meanwhile, I always struggled with plot and got bogged down with the interior life of my characters LOL. Good thing I eventually pivoted to cookbooks.

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Elizabeth Minchilli's avatar

That is so cool about Jodi Picoult!

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Laurie Benenson's avatar

I heard from friends the Florence tour was fantastic! We’re in Rome for a couple of days

( somehow miraculously got tickets to the Caravaggio exhibit!)—where do we absolutely have to eat?

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Michelle Toohey's avatar

I too am a Call the Midwife groupie and attribute it to a past nunnery life. On my way back from a trip to visit my kids in Oregon, of course I rewatched Conclave. Dating a Swiss Guard in my early twenties, I spent a lot time lurking in the Vatican.

If you would be interested, I just published my first historical novel titled Moon and Stars over Assisi: the Women Who Loved St. Francis. It tells the story of four women who took him from sinner to saint. Good reviews so far.

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JMcQuat's avatar

Really enjoyed reading this, it reminds me of everything Italian I love.

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