Pomato Revival

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A couple of years ago Joe, Joey, Katherine, and I took a little trip to Sicily. We stayed with my mom’s sister, Zia Antonia, and our cousins Giovanna and Maria, with a whirl of cousins and cousins’ cousins zipping around us. We ate. A lot. As Katherine once put it, “Oh, we ate. At gunpoint.” [...]

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  It’s my birthday! To celebrate, I’m sharing my favorite birthday cake recipe with you. It’s my mom’s famous tiramisu. She’s made this for me every year since…I don’t know when. My world must have just been dark until this cake showed up. It’s truly amazing, the sort of thing you wait for all year, [...]

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I know, I’m a solid week late for a post on things I’m thankful for. But I can’t help it if I stumbled on my Thanksgiving treasure chest Sunday night. I spent most of last week at my parents’ house, cooking and yelling and snuggling with my five-month-old niece. When all was finally quiet on [...]

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One day, years ago, my mom was eating a persimmon. It may have been from my grandfather’s garden in Brooklyn; it may have been from a store—I’m not sure. Nonetheless, there was something about this persimmon that she didn’t want to let go. So she took a seed, and without much strategizing, plopped it in [...]

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