"For our first lunch in Venice my consort and I ordered gnocchi alla romana at the insistence of the three Italians at our table. "It's very special," they all said, as Italians tend to do about everything on any menu. What arrived was nothing like what we Americans think of as gnocchi; these were not small and chewy but wide, airy, and as flat as biscuits, and they came with a choice of Parmigiano-Reggiano or Gorgonzola melted over."

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