‘Ogni parte della pianta,’ says Amalia, washing the freshly plucked courgettes in her kitchen sink, ‘every part of the plant. That’s the beauty of the zucchina. You can use the flesh, the small leaves, even the stalk. And, of course, you can eat the flowers.’ /It’s the flowers which have seduced me into giving zucchine a second chance: outsized yellow stars spangling under the sun. Zucchina flowers are sold still attached to the slender green batons of fruit here, or in bundles on their own.

These deaths got him a dime in a minimum-security prison.

Stayed in her own house, searched her body each morning and examined her conscience each night for progressive symptoms of the metastasis she feared was in her.

Tulpius in his observations, L. IV. 2. tells a story, that the subtle aura of the gout in a patient, would sometimes fly up from the great toe to the brain, and cause an epileptical fitt.