{"id":3419,"date":"2022-02-08T20:22:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2022-02-08T20:22:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:22:04","slug":"food-club-february-8-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/?p=3419","title":{"rendered":"Food Club: February 8-13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0355\/0108\/0714\/files\/LOVE_LETTER_TO_ITALY_square_1b5506c9-324d-4be7-a04b-56459ff71f38_540x.jpg?v=1644343838\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"634\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LOVE LETTER TO ITALY \u2013 Let me count the ways\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This affair has lasted well over fifty years. My love has never waned, in fact, it has grown stronger with time. Italy is my happy place. Nostalgia for better times has rekindled fond memories and COVID isolation has led me to reminisce about this extraordinary country. It is not easy to \u201ccount the ways\u201d I love her because much of the person I AM today is because of time I spent with her and because of the life experiences I lived and learned there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is slightly smaller than the state of California, but it delivers a range of landscapes, cuisines, customs, and cultural heritage that is hard to match anywhere else in the world. If I had to use one word to describe her, it would be\u00a0<em>&#8220;bellezza<\/em>&#8220;, beauty.\u00a0\u00a0To celebrate Italy&#8217;s culinary diversity, this week our menu takes from the entire peninsula, from north to south and the islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iricchifoodclub.com\/blogs\/news\/week-ninety-nine-february-8-13-2022\">SEE MENU<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOVE LETTER TO ITALY \u2013 Let me count the ways\u2026 This affair has lasted well over fifty years. My love has never waned, in fact, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-specials","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3420,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iricchidc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}