Article: Italian hotel's age-old recipes still check out

MALEO, ITALY We were running late. Driving south from Milan to Cremona on the Autostrada del Sole, my companion and I debated whether we had time for lunch. A trattoria in the town of Maleo, just a few miles west of Cremona, had been recommended to us as a convenient, nice place to stop for a meal. Our hunger pangs won out as we decided we could eat quickly and still reach our appointment on time.

The decision proved to be brilliant.

Instead of the down-home decor and earthy cooking style typical of a family-run trattoria, I found myself lunching in one of the country's premier restaurants.

While skeptics may call it dumb luck, I prefer to attribute my "discovery" to culinary ...

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