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  • Anyone whose first novel sells more than a million copies worldwide, and goes on to win Italy's most prestigious literary prize, the Premio Strega, is bound to turn the rest of us slightly green.

    The Solitude of Prime Numbers: Summary and book reviews of The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano. 2010

  • The narrator of W. Somerset Maugham's short story "The Lotus Eater" finishes a meal in Capri by ordering a round of coffee and glasses of "Strega, which is the best liqueur they make in Italy."

    Scaring Up a Cocktail 2007

  • BLT Prime in New York has on its cocktail menu a drink called the Strega-nator, which adds to the liqueur orange juice, lime juice and club soda.

    Scaring Up a Cocktail 2007

  • When things were going fine, the Strega were the people you went to for love-charms and luck-talismans, but when they weren't ... the Strega just might be the people causing the problems.

    The Shadow Of The Lion Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • Titled "Strega Nona," the book won a 1976 Caldecott Honor and launched dePaola's career as a children's-book author and artist.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • The first job gets him involved with the redheaded unflatteringly named 'Strega', who has promised a little boy to get back a paedophile photograph so she can destroy it in front of him.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Strega - Andrew Vachss Blue Tyson 2009

  • We also had two glasses of Strega which is a potent digestive made from a crazy mix of herbs like mint, fennel, and saffron.

    December « 2004 « I HEART BACON 2004

  • We also had two glasses of Strega which is a potent digestive made from a crazy mix of herbs like mint, fennel, and saffron.

    Date Night #1: Pretend Christmas « I HEART BACON 2004

  • She fancies herself a witch or "Strega" in honor of her Italian roots.

    KDKA - Pittsburgh's Source for Breaking News, Weather and Sports 2009

  • “Toto,” a story in La Strega, and Other Stories, by Ouida (1899): They had good health, good appetites, good tempers, good neighbors; and if many would have thought it a hard life to serve in a little dark shop all day, and spend the evenings counting up sous and centimes, they did not think so.

    Finding a Little Too Much in Oz 2009

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