Welcome to Milk Street's monthly cookbook feature! This month, we’re cooking from Leah Koenig's “Portico,” a resplendent overview of the 2,000 year-old-culture and cuisine of Rome’s Jewish community. Koenig weaves recipes throughout rich histories of Roman Jewish cocina povera—“a cuisine unlike any found elsewhere on earth.” When we asked Koenig for a recipe that she felt captured the spirit of the book, she chose this dried fruit and nut bar, pizza ebraica: “crispy-edged, soft-centered, absolut

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