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    Friday Fish Salad

    As a child, I never ate meat on Fridays. This was surely due to my parents’ Catholic upbringing when in their youth, the Catholic Church forbade meat consumption on Fridays. The reasons for this are somewhat muddled. It was most…

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    Fall Carbonara

    I did not grow up eating brussel sprouts. Never once were they served at any meal, at any time in my childhood or adulthood. We Italians love our broccoli rabe and string beans with tomatoes and escarole, but a brussel…