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Sunday Lunch August 2021: Ferragosto

Sunday Lunch August 2021: Ferragosto

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Sunday Lunch August 2021: Ferragosto
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You would think that in the middle of the hottest month of the year in the middle of the hottest region in Italy that the typical lunch to celebrate the biggest holiday of the year would tend towards ‘light’ and - shall we say - ‘easily digestible’ in a heatwave. If you thought this, then you obviously haven’t spent August in Umbria.

With temperatures ne…

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