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Lisa’s Cherry Vanilla Semifreddo

If you walk into any pasticceria or bar in Italy you will see a glass refrigerator filled with semifreddi. A semifreddo is a wonderful dessert, or midafternoon snack, as it is light, and, as the name implies, is semi-frozen. Semifreddi come in a variety of flavors, with fruit and
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Lisa’s Sweet Pepper Tart

Summer calls for easy recipes that you can pair with a glass of Prosecco or an Aperol Spritz outside. This Sweet Pepper Tart is just such a recipe! With the creamy goat cheese, crunchy peppers, and bitey black olives, it’s delicious with every bite. Plus, the recipe pairs
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Lisa’s 2023 Ferragosto Menu

Ferragosto
  Lisa at Forte dei Marmi in August, 1994 Ferragosto is a treasured holiday in Italy. Historically, Italian workers would take the entire month of August off for vacation. If you are an Italian movie lover, you might have scene Pranzo di Ferragosto, in which Roman
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Lisa’s Macedonia

Some of Lisa’s best memories are of eating peaches from Nonantola, a town northeast of Modena where her parents’ friends had a vast peach grove and farm. While vacationing at Forte dei Marmi together in Versilia on the Tuscan coast, these peaches would be served as
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