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Examples
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Enoteca Maria's popularity lies in large part with its "nonnas": a slew of local Italian grandmothers who rotate shifts, cooking up specialties based on what's available that night.
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Evidence of that talent is on every page of "Dolci: Italy's Sweets," a new cookbook by food historian Francine Segan that brings together a canon of authentic recipes collected from the people who really use them—homemakers, chefs, nonnas and bloggers.
Sweet Nothings 2011
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Pick up a sandwich or a DIY picnic at Italian deli Nonna's Cucina (7-9 Hickmott Rd, nonnas.co.uk), and eat it in the sunshine in the Botanical Gardens (Clarkehouse Rd, sbg.org.uk).
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He's thinking about opening another restaurant nearby featuring the cuisine of "nonnas from around the world."
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Doan feel badses wit the soundings of the moms, I is starting to sounds like my nonnas, maysherestinpeace.
every family has one… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Italy is not the timeless land of mammas, nonnas, and priests that is portrayed in so many cookbooks and ads.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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Mammas and nonnas have so much tradition to share, and we must taste it and learn from it before it disappears.
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His house-made strozzapreti with wild boar ragu has the kind of toothy textural mojo passed down by generations of nonnas; his pillowy gnocchi with rabbit confit sauce is dressed in a thin arugula pesto that had my table gobsmacked; and an Acquarello aged-rice pudding accented with crunchy puffed rice brittle makes playful but respectful use of esoteric ingredients.
Chicago Reader Anne Spiselman 2010
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Mammas and nonnas have so much tradition to share, and we must taste it and learn from it before it disappears.
NYT > Travel 2010
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Mammas and nonnas have so much tradition to share, and we must taste it and learn from it before it disappears.
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