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Ann’s orecchiette with Italian sausage and broccoli (see below).

It’s one of those Saturday mornings when seemingly everything I read is endlessly fascinating. Melissa Kirsch’s always-outstanding NYTimes Saturday newsletter sends me down a rabbit hole: memory and aging. She asks:

If we can’t remember the things we’ve read and watched and even loved, do th…