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Welcome to Buona Domenica, a weekly newsletter of inspired Italian home cooking and baking. I’m Domenica Marchetti, journalist, cooking instructor, occasional tour guide, and author of eight cookbooks on Italian cuisine. Looking for a particular recipe? You’ll find all Buona Domenica recipes indexed here. In this week’s newsletter we catch up with Giuseppe Dell’Anno, “Britalian” baker and winner of the 2021 season of the Great British Bake Off, whom I interviewed last week at the 92nd Street Y, in NYC.

There are few names that can pop up on my caller ID that bring a bigger smile to my face than Jack McKeon. So I was delighted to get a call from Jack to catch up last week. The most universally beloved person to ever wear a Marlins uniform, Jack is 92 and still going strong in year 6 as a senior advisor to Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo.

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It is time to settle the debate once and for all: Which is the better pet, cats or dogs? I believe there is unbiased answer to this question rooted in science, and I am honored to accept the role of impartial judge. I will provide a verdict based on the best scientific evidence that speaks to the pros and cons of pet ownership. To settle the debate, I will break the “best pet” question into five categories:

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That may be cliché #1 in baseball, right? I mean of all the things we say to ourselves and each other, this is perhaps the most repeated. It’s a marathon, not a sprint; it’s a long summer; it’s a war of attrition. However you want to phrase it, that’s what we’re always, always, always talking about: the season is so, so long. And yet. And yet every year we all have a bout of collective amnesia.

Hey all, Jason here. I’m still in Mexico City, and I should be better rested by now, but, not going to lie, have been struggling with the worst bout of illness I’ve had in a long time (insert Mexico travel joke here…) Here’s hoping next week is a little bit calmer so I can catch up on everything I’m behind on and actually enjoy being in Mexico City! If you enjoy reading this newsletter each Sunday and find value in it, please consider supporting me (and finhealth non-profits!

If the Saratoga Living team learned anything from the Miracle on Ice party we threw to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Team USA beating the USSR in the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid, it’s that People. Still. Care. The jersey-clad crowd at the party knew the outcome—the amateur US team impossibly triumphs over the mighty USSR in what has been called an ideological victory in the Cold War—and yet hockey fans of all ages watched the game on the big screen like it was happening live, cheering when the US scored and getting chills when announcer Al Michaels delivers his now iconic line: “Do you believe in miracles?

This is a super-sized dispatch and will likely be truncated in your Inbox, so be sure to click the “View Entire Message” link to expand. “Find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life.” —Max Fischer When it comes to pizza in New York, it’s hard for me to pick an all-time favorite pizza place. There will always be Pepi’sin Oneida, New York, the pizza parlor of my youth.