Ann Loves Plants

Tag: Italian

  • Manual for Life in the Open Air aka Outdoor Manual

    This Italian book from the 1970s was recently found in a box while my boyfriend was sorting through his things. As a boy, he moved from Italy to the United States with his family. Since he left while still learning to read and write well, he asked his mom if they could order some Italian…

  • Carduni aka Cardoons

    Uncle Joe didn’t live long enough to eat the fried little treats, but nevertheless, that summer, we ate the carduni without him. He had been so excited to hear about my wonderful Sicilian-American husband, a non-relation from California, of good Sicilian ancestry of course, that the fact that he was also a trained cook was…