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Squid Ink Bucatini con le Sarde

Squid Ink Bucatini con le Sarde

Though perhaps a little late in life, and unhelpfully complicated by life’s realities, if I could choose someone to be when I grow up, without a doubt I’d be Inspector Montalbano. Aside from pleasantly relatable traits, such as his warranted, weary grouchiness and exaggerated hand gestures, Montalbano is a man who pays food the respect that it deserves.

Saltbush and Squid Ink Tagliolini with Crab and Finger Lime

Saltbush and Squid Ink Tagliolini with Crab and Finger Lime

Back before parenthood and pandemic, when we were able to fly around the world, or jump in the car on a whim and just drive, I’d get to the ocean as often as I could. For a while there I was diving almost every weekend, and became quicker at jumping into a wetsuit and slinging on a tank than pulling on my socks and shoes.

Squid Ink and Lemon Linguine with Whitebait | Linguine al Nero di Seppia e Limone con Bianchetti

Squid Ink and Lemon Linguine with Whitebait | Linguine al Nero di Seppia e Limone con Bianchetti

Two of the clearest and most joyful memories that I have of my first visit to Italy, when I was four, are of me loudly pretending that I was being kidnapped as my dad tried to load me into the car across from the Colosseum, and sitting in the back seat of a cousin’s car as we hurtled through acres of olive trees in my nonna’s hometown of Melicuccà.


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