I just returned from Montalcino where I spent a super relaxing week mostly just hanging in the village. One of my favorite rituals is buying an armful of Italian cooking magazines and saving them to devour 😉 on the plane ride home. I spied a tasty white wine version of a cacciatore in this month’s issue of Sale&Pepe (hands down my favorite Italian cooking magazine) and couldn’t get it out of my mind so decided to make a briny version for dinner last night.

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In her 1971 cookbook, In the Kitchen with Love, Sophia Loren says that it is sweet red peppers that make Chicken Cacciatora really Neapolitan, although no true Neapolitan would agree with this. Sophia Loren was from the town of Pozzuoli, a town adjacent to Naples, but it might as well be in another state as far as the Neapolitans are concerned. This is a really good version of Chicken Cacciatora that leaves out the rosemary from the standard version.

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