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Really good limoncello is nearly neon–a vibrant lemon-lime color. My homemade paint bucket limoncello looks more like piss. But it drinks just fine–perhaps a little to easily. Enjoy as an after-dinner aperitif, drizzled over pound cake and/or ice cream, or anywhere you’d usually enjoy the bold flavors of lemon and grain alcohol. Ingredients: makes five [...]

My Italian is not so good, limited to a handful of dining-related phrases: “una tavola per due, per favore” (a table for two, please), “la lista dei vini, per favore” (the wine list, please), and my favorite, “un altro, per favore” (another, please). The key is over-pronouncing every syllable, almost to the point of being [...]

It’s been almost five years since my first and only trip to Italy. But every time Lady Akin and I eat dinner at Bella Napoli in Brookside (6229 Brookside Blvd.), we end up recounting the two-week trip. “Remember the 400 photos you took of the Trevi fountain … Remember leaving the camera in the taxi [...]