Safeway stores in northern California sell 50% more fresh herbs, Asian food, fresh pasta, capers and fresh spinach than its stores elsewhere in the country.

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As a child growing up in Italy, Matteo learned to make fresh pasta using eggs straight from the hen, and still applies this passion to his own cooking methods.

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Fort Defiance, a few blocks north, serves up fresh pasta, small plates like chicken liver pate with bacon-onion jam, and historically-inspired cocktails like the Colonial Cooler, a twist on the Pimm's Cup that was first mixed in British North Borneo in the 1920s.

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Signature dishes include fresh tagliolini pasta with white alba truffle, and paccheri (tube-shaped pasta) with fresh lobster, made to his own recipe.

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Fresh, handmade pasta can be enjoyed at Pasta Remoli.

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Patrick is the fresh shrimp stuck into pasta shells swimming in decadent garlic butter, covered with melted cheese and topped with a huge pile of fresh lump crabmeat.

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Students can get pasta and fresh sauce made to order and also salads, such as a Caesar with chicken that is grilled on the spot.

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Finished with a showering of fresh basil and Pecorino cheese, the pasta was, and still is, perfection.

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He is the kind of man you'd trust to lead you in the direction of good food, and my five fellow passengers and I ate often and well, dining on such regional specialties as capuns, a creamy pasta dish with ham and chard, and bitto, a cheese produced only in the summer using fresh milk helicoptered down from the high passes.

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