Featuring more than 160 recipes from the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy, this taste-tempting cookbook presents an array of richly varied, sophisticated dishes that range from gnocchi stuffed with plums or apricots or tagliolini tossed with poppy seeds to sea scallops with almond sauce, cinnamon-scented veal stew, and the region's signature dish, frico.

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Behind the Cookbook: Recipes from Paradise

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