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The Capo Market, Palermo, Sicily (Photo: Todd Lehman)

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Cabbage Frittata

Cabbage Frittata

March 14, 2019

Frittatas, I believe, make a perfect luncheon dish—basically easy to make and not too filling. My Sicilian family was particularly […]

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Gnocchi With Shrimp and Zucchini

Gnocchi With Shrimp and Zucchini

February 24, 2019

  Twenty years ago, my partner and I walked into an attractive, crowded restaurant in Venice, whose name has sadly […]

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Cuddurune: Sicilian Fried Breads

Cuddurune: Sicilian Fried Breads

January 29, 2019

One of my favorite lunches as a child was cuddurune, or Sicilian fried breads. My mother never made them very […]

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Swiss Steak: 1950’s Retro Comfort Food

Swiss Steak: 1950’s Retro Comfort Food

January 14, 2019

Swiss Steak: 1950s Retro Comfort Food Many outdated foods do not necessarily deserve their untimely deaths. Swiss Steak, a 1950s […]

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Pennsylvania-Dutch Chocolate Cake

Pennsylvania-Dutch Chocolate Cake

December 30, 2018

Pennsylvania-Dutch Chocolate Cake Despite my love for elaborate European pastries, my favorite dessert will always be this Pennsylvania-Dutch Chocolate Layer […]

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Swedish Nut Bread

Swedish Nut Bread

December 17, 2018

One hot summer day when I was seven years old, I was bored and couldn’t find anything to amuse myself. […]

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Open-Faced Hot Pork Sandwiches

Open-Faced Hot Pork Sandwiches

December 10, 2018

My mother’s recipe for Open-Faced Hot Pork Sandwiches has become one of my favorite wintertime comfort foods. Although many cuts […]

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Raspberry Marbled Cheesecake

Raspberry Marbled Cheesecake

November 11, 2018

Raspberry Marbled Cheesecake Raspberry Marbled Cheesecake with a chocolate-crumb crust was the prime specialty at Miss Grimble’s, a wonderful bakery […]

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Chicken Croquettes with Veloute Sauce

Chicken Croquettes with Veloute Sauce

October 26, 2018

Chicken Croquettes With Velouté Sauce Chicken croquettes with velouté sauce rank near the top of my list of delectable dishes. […]

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Chestnut-Filled Crepes With Chocolate

Chestnut-Filled Crepes With Chocolate

September 21, 2018

I love chestnut-filled crepes with chocolate. However until the last few years, making sweetened chestnut purée was an ordeal. It […]

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Meatballs With Garlic-Mint Sauce

Meatballs With Garlic-Mint Sauce

September 5, 2018

Meatballs With Garlic-Mint Sauce I love fried meatballs. They are tasty and easy to make. So I paired them with […]

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Chicken Cacciatore a la Norman

Chicken Cacciatore a la Norman

August 26, 2018

Chicken Cacciatore a la Norman My chicken cacciatore recipe differs rather dramatically from the traditional recipe. Generally, the tomato has […]

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Red-Currant, Bavarian-Cream Cake

Red-Currant, Bavarian-Cream Cake

August 20, 2018

Red-Currant, Bavarian-Cream Cake This is a perfect cake for the end of summer, when red currants are plentiful. The tart currants […]

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Stracotto di Cucuzza

Stracotto di Cucuzza

August 6, 2018

Stracotto di Cucuzza Cucuzza is the long, pale-green squash so beloved by Sicilians for its slightly sweet cream-colored flesh. Technically […]

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Cream of Vidalia Onion Soup

Cream of Vidalia Onion Soup

July 21, 2018

Cream of Vidalia Onion Soup From April through August, the large crop of Vidalia onions provides a myriad of opportunities […]

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Panini Nord e  Sud

Panini Nord e Sud

July 12, 2018

For some time, I’ve been experimenting with various kinds of panini (hot pressed sandwich) in a quest to find one […]

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Nonno’s Unique Italian Meat Sauce

Nonno’s Unique Italian Meat Sauce

July 2, 2018

My Sicilian grandfather (Nonno), Ignazio Cangialosi, was an excellent cook. Although he made his living working in a factory foundry, […]

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Critical Acclaim for The Wrong Side of the Room

“The book’s second half is fully stocked with accounts of stage shows galore—not to mention impressive name-dropping (Barbra Streisand, Betty Grable, Dorothy Lamour, Gene Kelly). These anecdotes from the theater’s social scene glide alongside vivid imagery from the author’s performances and other successes. The book also has a delightful, chatty sense of humor with moments of wry wit that make it exciting to read.
In the end, it effectively celebrates a life of artistic inspiration alongside the giddiness and glory of live theater.”

—Kirkus Review

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Readers’ Favorite Review
by Asher Syed

The Wrong Side of the Room: A Life in Music Theater by Norman Mathews is an autobiography chronicling the author’s life as he transitions from a confusing and often abusive childhood, born in a sleet of uncertainty (literally, as it turns out). Masked by imagination and written with a humor that most would not be able to apply to such situations, Mathews is able to harness this creativity and hitch it to his own ambitions as a rising star. When an injury threatens to derail an ascent that defies all odds, Mathews is forced to reinvent and reignite himself once more, and does so amid a whole host of personal and professional turmoil, scandal, and the kind of stories that are all the more shocking – and inspiring – because they are actually true.

Norman Mathews delivers a riveting memoir with The Wrong Side of the Room that opens with a contentious genesis and powerfully surges through to its finale. This is the ultimate tale of a man who is knocked down seven times and gets up eight, except in this case our tenacious narrator is struck to the ground far more than that. But he does continue to rise and appears to have carved out a genuine niche for himself until, “I woke up one morning with a strange pain in my back and running down my right leg. In a few days, it got much worse, and I began limping.” With the support of his partner Todd, he buys a Steinway, dives into formal education, and…well, at first that all implodes too. But Mathews is the consummate phoenix and, much like he displays in the writing of this book, skillfully maneuvers the trajectory of his life’s own narrative into a story that we are fortunate enough to have shared in The Wrong Side of the Room.

Impressively candid, exceptionally informative, deftly written, organized and presented, “The Wrong Side of the Room: A Life in Music Theater” is an extraordinary memoir that will have special and particular appeal for anyone with an interest in show business. . .very highly recommended for both community and academic library Contemporary American Biography collections.

—Midwest Book Review

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The Wrong Side of the Room is the Bronze-Medal Winner in the Non-Fiction —Music/Entertainment Category of the Readers’ Favorite Book Competition.

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BOOK CORRECTION: In my autobiography on page 152, I state that Carolyn Morris died in a motorcycle accident. I learned from her daughter-in-law that though she was severely injured she did not die. She is still living in Rutland, Vermont.

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Read my new article, Sicilian Classics from Nonni’s Kitchen in the Times of Sicily. The article gives 4  of my grandparents’ interesting recipes.

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