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What is Nduja?

Nduja (pronounced en-DOO-ya) is a fiercely spiced, gloriously spreadable salami originating from Spilinga, a small town in Calabria — the sun-scorched toe of Italy’s boot. Made from a generous proportion of Calabrian chilli peppers blended with pork fat and various cuts of cured meat, it has an intensely red, almost volcanic colour and a texture so

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Casarecce Garofalo alla Norma — Sicily’s Most Iconic Pasta Dish

The Dish That Earned an Operatic Name Legend has it that when a Catanian gastronome first tasted this pasta back in 19th-century Sicily, he declared it worthy of Bellini’s opera Norma — the greatest, most sublime thing he had ever experienced. Whether the story is true or not, the name stuck, and Pasta alla Norma

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