{"id":40,"date":"2016-12-10T17:47:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T17:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/villasentieri.com\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2024-09-19T06:34:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T13:34:46","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/villasentieri.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

I grew up with the legacy of my grandmother\u2019s cooking.\u00a0 A child of four when her parents moved to the United States, Angelina DeRosa, learned to prepare superb southern Italian food from her mother.\u00a0 She was known throughout the neighborhood as an excellent cook.<\/p>\n

Though my grandmother and grandfather had six children, on any given night she could have been cooking for many more people\u2014friends, relatives, and, as the years went on, sons- and daughters-in-law.\u00a0 Finally grandchildren were added to the mix.<\/p>\n

I was two years old when she died.\u00a0 So, you see, I never really knew her.\u00a0 But in a sense, I do.\u00a0 What makes her real for me are the stories I grew up with\u2014often centering on food\u2014and her recipes.\u00a0 Every time I cook something that I learned from my mother who learned it from her mother, the connection is there.\u00a0 Angelina\u2019s recipes form the core of my cooking.\u00a0 They are among the first recipes I learned to cook. Cooking, eating, entertaining around a table-full of food, making conversation over coffee and cannoli\u2014each of these is a connection to my family and my heritage.<\/p>\n

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My grandmother Angelina De Rosa is on the far left with her mother and her brother and sister.<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Being the youngest of Angelina\u2019s six children, my mother got to spend the most time with her learning to cook.\u00a0 By all accounts my mother was as good a cook as my grandmother.\u00a0 Many of my mother\u2019s recipes are represented here.\u00a0 These are recipes that she developed on her own (her method of making meat filling for lasagna is unlike any I have ever seen) or adopted and adapted from family and friends.\u00a0 I grew up with all of them.<\/p>\n

I share the same passion for cooking as my mother and grandmother.\u00a0 You don\u2019t cook as well as they did just because you have to cook.\u00a0 You have to feel some connection to the process.\u00a0 Something must draw you in.\u00a0 Over the last fifty years I\u2019ve learned to prepare traditional foods from cultures around the world from family and friends\u2014usually their most cherished dishes.\u00a0 I have had the good fortune to cook with and learn from many wonderful cooks from cultures around the world including Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Japan, the Philippines, Russia, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, and the United Arab Emirates in addition to my much-loved Italy.<\/p>\n

Traditional recipes, from any cuisine, are my passion.\u00a0 I want to know how something was made historically and then recreate it (within reason) today.\u00a0 I have a personal connection to each of the recipes on this site.\u00a0 Most of them are family recipes that are generations old.\u00a0 The smells and the tastes of each of these dishes connect me to my past whether it was my first foray into learning Sri Lankan cooking from Nanacy Rajapakse when I was at university to the frequent ritual of cooking dinner with my mother-in-law, Marisa Pieri.\u00a0 These recipes also propel me into the future.\u00a0 My goal is to document and preserve these traditional recipes.\u00a0 Without a doubt, this is a very personal collection.\u00a0 It exists because of the people I\u2019ve met and the places I\u2019ve gone.\u00a0 I am grateful to each and every person who shared a treasured family recipe with me.\u00a0 I hope my rendering of these recipes does them justice.<\/p>\n

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