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Published 2013
Maria, our Italian housekeeper, usually comes to our house after noon. If the weather is nice she’ll eat her lunch first, outside; otherwise she’ll bring her lunch in and we’ll eat together in the kitchen. One day she took a sandwich on dark Dutch bread from her bag and gave me half:
“Taste!” she said.
It was funny, I was tasting Dutch and Italian at the same time: Wow, so good!
“Pumpkin fritters!” she exclaimed proudly, “and I made them from scratch. They’re great o