Acknowledgments

Grazie and also Thank You to Gary Woo and Julia Drori for careful and demonically detailed recipe testing, and lively discussions and critiques of the recipes;

the amazing Sharon Silva for copyediting, querying, and driving me crazy and sane at the same time. Always the voice of reason and experience;

Bill LeBlond for encouragement and stimulating questions and dialogue;

Sarah Putman for making the editorial process run smoothly;

Anne Galperin for her aesthetic and ethnic sensibilities, and her research into old Jewish typefaces and Italo-Jewish artworks;