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Posts from ‘September, 2011’

I scream, you scream, we all scream for… arrosticini

Summer was filled with barbecues and the occasional sagra. Some of them, quite frankly, aren’t worth going to. But the absolute best summer food to be had in Abruzzo, and Luigi’s all-time favorite, are arrosticini. Arrosticini are basically mutton on a wooden skewer, but don’t think of the traditional shish-kabob with big hunks of meat. [...]

Another first

Now that Luigi is 3 years old he’s started asilo. I’ll admit I was rather torn about the whole thing. On the one hand I was feeling sentimental and not wanting my little boy to go away to school all day (it lasts from 9 am to 4 pm) but on the other hand I [...]