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February 06, 2012 03:25 PM ET | Eric Levin | Permanent Link

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If you've been following this Plain Sight series on northern Italy, you know how much my son and I owe to our wonderful hosts in the Appenine Mountains...

Meet Giorgio Calzolari and his wife (He calls her, "My Queen") Graziella Varotto. The Jersey connection? Graziella's son, Luca Valerin, is chef/co-owner of Osteria Giotto in Montclair. Luca and his mom were one of seven stories we did--in our current issue on Italian food in Jersey--about Italian chefs whose love of food and cooking was inspired by their mothers or nonnas (grandmothers).

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