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Five Easy Day Trips from Bologna
If you fancy a day away from the city of Bologna, here are five varied options to choose from.
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Parmigiana di melanzane
Great Foods of Italy: Eggplant Parmigiana
Eggplant parmigiana is one of Italy’s most beloved recipes.  
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Rome Bans Picnics and Fences Off Trash Cans in Effort to Curb Wild Boar Invasion
The Italian capital is considering a cull on wild boar after first cases of African swine fever are detected.
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Scala dei Turchi beach in Sicily
Sicilian Man Wants Elon Musk to Buy Sicily’s Scala dei Turchi Cliff
Sicily’s famed cliff is in part privately owned up for sale after legal battle.
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Virgin Cakes: Cassatine di Vergini
Almondy shortbread domes filled with custard and topped with icing, these classic Sicilian sweets were first created in the 1800s at the Monastero di Santa Maria dell Vergini in Palermo.   

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Virgin Cakes: Cassatine di Vergini
Almondy shortbread domes filled with custard and topped with icing, these classic Sicilian sweets were first created in the 1800s at the Monastero di Santa Maria dell Vergini in Palermo.   
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Pasta
Pasta with Spring Pea Pesto
A totally nut-free pesto, that is ready in minutes, and is sophisticated, yet simple.  
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Strawberry pie
Strawberry Pie | Torta di Fragole
Unlike most American fruit pies, this specialty of Italy is best served icy cold so it makes a fabulous warm-weather dessert, perfect for strawberry season  
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Pesto lasagna
Open Pesto Lasagna
In this streamlined modern variation the lasagna sheets are stacked to create easy to assemble, but very elegant, individual portions.
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torta margherita
Torta Margherita
This classic Italian cake with a fine yellow crumb dates to at least the late 19th century but has a 21st-century twist thanks to pastry maestroIginio Massari.     

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