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Preface
Vicolo Forni
Permesso di Soggiorno
A Page Boy in Pavarotti's Restaurant
Sleeping with Nuns
Il Cappuccino
Lord Arnold and the Knight
Terror and Courtesy at the Esselunga Supermercato
Foiling the Cheese Thieves
Mold Makes a Good Salami Great
"The Poor Meatball!"
Rats in the Canals, Peacocks in the Piazza
The Bicycle Thief
Treachery and Treason amid the Subcommittee of Vespa Paint
Norman the Conqueror
Eat Your Hat, Cowboy
A Night at the Opera
Four, Five, Sex . . .
Lessons from Guido
Arrangiati!
A Risky Subject
Casino or Casinò?
Commie Pigs?
Never Trust a Thin Cook
Angry Noodles
Walking over Death
Super Pig Trotter
Reggio's Blockheads and Bologna's Baloney
The Secret World of the Balsamic Vinegar Elite
Pet Pigs
Buon Natale!
Sunny Italy
The Hot Springs of Ischia
Naples at New Year's
San Geminiano and the Festival of Fog
Soccer Season
Truffles and Cotecchino
Porn and Puritans
La Tivù
Politics, Italian Style
The Art of Eating
Eating Venus's Navel
Back to High School
La Ferrari
Touch Your Balls for Luck!
Why Would You Ever Leave?
Parli Italiano?
Acknowledgments

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 05/02/2024
      ISBN13: 9780816667468, 978-0816667468
      ISBN10: 0816667462
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Vicolo Forni
      Permesso di Soggiorno
      A Page Boy in Pavarotti's Restaurant
      Sleeping with Nuns
      Il Cappuccino
      Lord Arnold and the Knight
      Terror and Courtesy at the Esselunga Supermercato
      Foiling the Cheese Thieves
      Mold Makes a Good Salami Great
      "The Poor Meatball!"
      Rats in the Canals, Peacocks in the Piazza
      The Bicycle Thief
      Treachery and Treason amid the Subcommittee of Vespa Paint
      Norman the Conqueror
      Eat Your Hat, Cowboy
      A Night at the Opera
      Four, Five, Sex . . .
      Lessons from Guido
      Arrangiati!
      A Risky Subject
      Casino or Casinò?
      Commie Pigs?
      Never Trust a Thin Cook
      Angry Noodles
      Walking over Death
      Super Pig Trotter
      Reggio's Blockheads and Bologna's Baloney
      The Secret World of the Balsamic Vinegar Elite
      Pet Pigs
      Buon Natale!
      Sunny Italy
      The Hot Springs of Ischia
      Naples at New Year's
      San Geminiano and the Festival of Fog
      Soccer Season
      Truffles and Cotecchino
      Porn and Puritans
      La Tivù
      Politics, Italian Style
      The Art of Eating
      Eating Venus's Navel
      Back to High School
      La Ferrari
      Touch Your Balls for Luck!
      Why Would You Ever Leave?
      Parli Italiano?
      Acknowledgments

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