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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2047614, member: 1526"] Nope. The patriarch of their family has been dead for many years. He used to come into a store I worked at and he gave us all homemade Italian "pepper cookies" as he called them. They weren't cookies at all. They were about the size of fortune cookies but they were extremely hot and spicy, made with fennel seeds. He also made homemade wine. He'd take us out to his car and we'd drink some. He had it in huge gallon jugs on the floor in the back seat. If you were willing to drink Alessio's wine you never had to prove your courage in any other way. He was a wonderful man, always made us laugh. First generation from Italy. I still have the "cookie" recipe, but not the wine. It was dual purpose. You could remove paint with it. [/QUOTE]