Two things coincided last week. My first zucchini from the garden (hurray!) and Sophie getting two wisdom teeth removed (not so hurray!). She had them yanked in Rome, and Domenico picked her up directly from the dentist and brought her to Todi, where I”d been spending the week.

For those of you who know Sophie you know the  main thing she was worried about was what she was going to eat while recuperating. Sophie is, to put it mildly, a good eater. This means she not only eats a lot, but thinks about what she is going to eat and is very demanding when it comes to quality. Sound familiar?

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