Article: The gospel according to Andrea Lee: the language, the food, the culture, the people are different--but soul is soul all over the world. An expatriate writer finds some southern comfort, Italian style. (Aha! Moment).(Brief Article)

IT WAS A BLISTERING AFTERNOON IN PERUGIA, PART of a heat wave that besieged the beautiful Italian university town during last summer's jazz festival. I was sitting with my children at an outdoor cafe on a side street, eating lunch and eavesdropping on the exhausted English-speaking tourists and frazzled Italian waiters: a favorite family game, since, although we're American, we live in Italy and my kids-a 16-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son-are bilingual. We had driven down from our home in the northern city of Turin to join the international army of music lovers thronging the nonstop concerts held in the parks and theaters of the medieval city center. Suddenly, as I ...

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