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PIN IT Italy has a hard time keeping savory food salty. With sweet boiled dumplings and plums stuffed inside potato dough, they are so on to something many outside Europe would be skeptical of trying. Torta di Latticini alla Lucana is “technically” a savory pie with ricotta, pecorino and saliccia but with the addition of sugar, I’m…
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