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Milk Street Backroads Italy: Finding Italy's Forgotten Recipes
Christopher Kimball and J.M. Hirsch2025 selection · Nonfiction
Milk Street Backroads Italy: Finding Italy's Forgotten Recipes
Milk Street Backroads Italy: Finding Italy's Forgotten Recipes by Christopher Kimball and J.M. Hirsch appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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