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At his rural farmhouse, Mas Trucafort, he and his wife host cooking classes and meals featuring foods that are typical of the region, like delicious calcots -- a cross between a spring onion and a leek -- served with romesco sauce, and artichokes served with Catalonia's favourite accompaniment, the garlic sauce allioli.

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The left's candidate, ex-mayor of a town once known as Italy's Stalingrad, could scarcely be more typical of the ex-communisti Mr Berlusconi uses as bogeymen to scare the middle classes.

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