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Our Top Ten Alternative Titles For The New Dan Brown Novel

BBC, THE GUARDIAN(UK)

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NEW YORK- Dan Brown, the bestselling author of the Da Vinci Code, is set to release a new novel on May 14.

According to The Guardian, Dan Brown's dapper, tweed-suited symbologist Robert Langdon, the man who cracked The Da Vinci Code and found The Lost Symbol, is about to embark on a new mystery – and this time it's literary.

Photo Robert Langdon on Facebook

Named "Inferno," for the first part of the Italian poet Dante's epic Divine Comedy, the new book will be set in Florence, Italy.

The title was revealed today via social media sites including Twitter and Facebook. Each time fans used #DanBrownTODAY in their posts, a piece of a mosaic was unlocked – which eventually revealed the name and the image of the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore, better known as the Duomo, in the Tuscan city says the BBC.

Among the posts were guesses as to what the new title would be. Way more fun than "Inferno..."

Our Top 10 choices for what the new Dan Brown novel should have been called:

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When Racism Poisons Italy's Culinary Scene

This is the case of chef Mareme Cisse, a black woman, who was called a slur after a couple found out that she was the one who would be preparing their meal.

Photo of Mareme Cisse cooking

Mareme Cisse in the kitchen of Ginger People&Food

Caterina Suffici

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TURIN — Guess who's not coming to dinner. It seems like a scene from the American Deep South during the decades of segregation. But this happened in Italy, in this summer of 2023.

Two Italians, in their sixties, got up from the restaurant table and left (without saying goodbye, as the owner points out), when they declared that they didn't want to eat in a restaurant where the chef was what they called: an 'n-word.'

Racists, poor things. And ignorant, in the sense of not knowing basic facts. They don't realize that we are all made of mixtures, come from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. And that food, of course, are blends of different ingredients and recipes.

The restaurant is called Ginger People&Food, and these visitors from out of town probably didn't understand that either.

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