Dinner: A Love Story

Dinner: A Love Story

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For Your Mother-in-Law

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Jenny Rosenstrach
May 04, 2016
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I have a lot of favorite moments in Katherine Wilson's hilarious memoir, Only in Naples, but my most favorite is when she describes her Neapolitan mother-in-law, Raffaella, staring at a ring of measuring spoons in Wilson's American kitchen "as if they were an archaeological find." Cooking in Naples is a feel-as-you-go expression of love, not an exercise…

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