Angel Wings

Growing up, as much as I loved family meals themselves, probably my favorite part was after dinner, when we all lingered around the table, enjoying one another’s company. The adults would pass around a bottle of Strega, an amaro from Benevento, known as “the city of witches,” which is the town in Italy where my mother’s family is from. (Strega means “witch” in Italian.) There was also coffee, bowls of nuts and nutcrackers scattered around, and always a plate of angel wings and tar