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Grilled Rabbit and Sausage Skewers

Impress your friends and family at the next family cookout with this Italian favorite

Grilled Rabbit and Sausage Skewers
Grilled rabbit and sausage skewers prepared "Conigilo alla Molisana". (Reuters/Clifford A. Wright photo)

As warm weather tempts Americans to launch our annual outdoor-cooking adventures, most of us are too content with traditional American fare for the grill. Steaks and burgers are fine, but to wow the crowd consider some Italian classics well-suited for the All-American grill, including a rabbit recipe from the region of Molise.

Rabbit has lost some of its mid-century popularity, but it used to be eaten much more by Americans who were of the Greatest Generation, the generation that served in World War II.

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