Istria is NOT Italy
Notwithstanding the recipies, politics should not enter a cookbook. Istria, the region Ms. Bastianich claims to be from, is not in Northern Italy. It is a peninsula in the Northern Adriatic Sea that is shared between Slovenia and Croatia. The times of "Italia irredenta" and the Treaty of London of 1915 that granted Slovenian and Croatian territory to Italians should be bygone.