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Boston

East Boston and the North End still run on family kitchens the Freedom Trail crowds never make it to.

The Freedom Trail draws a straight line through the historic core, but Boston's Italian and immigrant neighborhoods across the harbor keep cooking for the people who live there — scribbled menus, no reservations system to speak of, and regulars who've been coming for decades.

Boston