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{ Janet Fletcher / Food Writer }

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Take the Cannoli Ice Cream

August 9, 2022 janet@janetfletcher.com

I only recently learned that the most famous lines in The Godfather (“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”) were not in the script. Actor Richard Castellano ad-libbed them. Movie critics have debated the meaning, but to me it’s obvious. What kind of Italian-American would leave cannoli behind, even fleeing a crime scene?

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In Milk: Cow, From: U.S. Tags ricotta, ice cream, ricotta ice cream, gelato, Sicilian food, Sicilian desserts, cannoli, Rosetta Costantino
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Six Ricotta Dishes to Make Before Summer Ends

July 12, 2022 janet@janetfletcher.com
Pesto with ricotta

We’re having a pesto marathon at my house. Tonight…and tomorrow night..and the next night. The garden basil is out of control and it’s now or never for the year’s sweetest pesto. I had made pesto for decades before discovering what a spoonful of ricotta does for it. So creamy! Fred Plotkin, the author of the bible on Ligurian cooking (Recipes from Paradise: Life and Food on the Italian Riviera), assures me that ricotta is a legitimate addition, although he would probably say I use too much. (I live on Planet Cheese, after all.) Try my way and let me know what you think.

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In Milk: Sheep, From: Italy Tags ricotta, ricotta ice cream, fresh ricotta, Fred Plotkin, pesto, frittata, flan, ricotta mousse, My Calabria, Ligurian cooking
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Happy Birthday, America!

July 1, 2019 janet@janetfletcher.com
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Raspberries, blueberries, ricotta…what could be more American? Italian immigrants are a huge part of America’s cheesemaking story, past and present. They brought their know-how and taste memories with them and created their own made-in-America interpretations of mozzarella, burrata, Fontina, Gorgonzola and Parmigiano-Reggiano. What would American cheese counters be today without the Swiss, German, Dutch, Portuguese and Mexican immigrants who arrived with little besides their work ethic and built our cheese factories and dairy farms? Let’s toast all these hyphenated Americans on the Fourth of July.

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In From: U.S., Milk: Cow Tags ricotta, Fourth of July recipes, ricotta ice cream, fruit crisp, crisp recipes, fruit desserts, Italian immigrants
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