Like any good Italian, my mom, Victoria Perritano, made her first batch of pasta dough as younger bride newly married to her Italian groom. She discovered the approach from her mom, my grandmother. Pasta making has been a method and custom lovingly handed down in Italian households for generations. In truth, famend chef, restaurateur and cookbook creator Mario Batali credit watching his grandmother make pasta for a lot of his present success. “My grandma made fresh ravioli or gnocchi every single time we visited her for Sunday supper from my birth until her passing,” Batali says in an e mail. “It was phenomenal and truly defined who I am as an Italian American, as a grandson, as a son, and as a father and a husband.” Batali says his first reminiscence of pasta was watching his grandmother make her gnocchi and oxtail ragu, after which finally her calves’ mind ravioli. [embedded content] I am undecided my mom’s pasta may stand as much as Batali’s grandmother’s, however Victo...
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