tagged w/ Liguria
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hile I have a Germanic last name, I grew up in an Italian household. My family traces it's roots back to Genoa in the Ligurian provence of Italy. As a kid what we ate was considered ethnic food. For most kids my age Italian food consisted of Spaghetti-O's. For us it was pesto. It was something no one had heard of and you never saw it on the menu's in Italian restaurants.hile I have a Germanic last name, I grew up in an Italian household. My family traces... more
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I had a flashback to being a kid this week. I was down in the Mission and happened to be walking by Lucca’s Delicatessen when I saw in the window a box of Bugia cookies. I had totally forgotten about these cookies of my youth and I had to buy a box.I had a flashback to being a kid this week. I was down in the Mission and happened to... more
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In a region with many problems, the first of which is its leadership, the demonstration of Amantea is a breath of fresh air. Thousands of people took to the streets yesterday to demand truth and justice on the "ships of poisons", laden with toxic and radioactive waste, sunk by mafia off the coast of Calabria. The scandal in fact is not only about a region of the South, though the usual italian hypocrisy encourages this thinking.In a region with many problems, the first of which is its leadership, the... more
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