Do You Know This Italian Almond Bread?

Food Mystery!

One of our readers has written in with a wonderful food mystery on his hands — there’s a certain almond bread he remembers from back in the 1970s, and he is hoping to find the recipe to share with his family. Now, I’ve run this question past a couple of food-savvy friends, and checked my own cookbook library, but the bread isn’t ringing a bell…

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Pumpkin Panini and Apple-Seitan Sandwich

Every autumn, the Earth erupts forth in a great bounty of fruits and vegetables in such great quantities that the ground must know it will produce nothing for the next 5 or 6 months... How else can you explain the flood of apples, cranberries, pumpkins, squash, and other gourds that invade grocery stores across the country every October? Today, we are going to elevate Fall fare into the fantastic. We are going to make sandwiches! (And they're going to be veg friendly, too.)

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