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Recipe for Fried Rice Balls

from The Eternal City: Recipes and Stories from Rome by Maria Pasquale

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

Any day in Rome, you can eat pizza three meals a day. Or I can. Add a slice of crostata di marmellata, a tart with jam, or a different one with sour cherries and ricotta, later in the afternoon. There are recipes for these delights in the book, and plenty more. Try making these delightful fried rice balls. Next on my list: grilled lamb cutlets; gnocchi with tomatoes and red mullet; broccoli and potato smash; and zeppole. This beautiful book is almost as good as a trip to the eternal city. Then, go there, wander around, and try some pizza and gelato everywhere you go. 

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Recipe excerpted with permission from The Eternal City: Recipes and Stories from Rome Maria Pasquale (Smith Street Books)

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Recipe for Sugar Cream Pie from Iowa

from 50 Pies, 50 States by Stacey Mei Yan Fong, photographs by Alanna Hale, illustrations by Shelby Warwood
Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This book is full of wonderful pie recipes and stories. Travel around the country in your own kitchen. Start baking this sweet, creamy pie. Next on my list: Heirloom tomato and cheese pie with herbed crust from Arkansas; sour cream and raisin pie from Iowa; shoofly pie from Pennsylvania; and Maine’s blueberry pie with Moxie. Yes, the soda pop (or as we call it in New England, tonic).

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Recipe excerpted with permission from 50 Pies, 50 States (Voracious/Little Brown)

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