This recipe comes from Siglinda Scarpa, a sculptor, potter, and filmmaker who was born in Italy but now lives in North Carolina, where she makes beautiful flameproof terra-cotta pots. “When I was a very little girl, I used to wake up to the smell of food that my great-grandmother was cooking on the woodstove in terra-cotta pots. She had many of them in various shapes and sizes, and each one was used for a specific food and that food only, ” she told me.
