Nana's spaghetti soup: not your typical Italian grandma story.
“How’s your friend, that nice boy?” my grandma Clara asked.
I knew she wouldn’t drop this easily, so I slowly and loudly offered, “I don’t like him, we weren’t a good fit.” She gave me anI leaned across the floral placemats and extended my hand. “Don’t you trust that I will choose someone good? That takes time!” My grandma and I had different ideas about the importance of keeping “nice boys” around.
And they did, happily! They raised a family in this big two-family home in Mineola, on Long Island. When my grandma Clara married, she and her husband, Celestino , moved into the downstairs apartment, and my great-grandparents took the upstairs.Upstairs, Nana churned out mass quantities of tomato sauce, homemade pasta, herby lamb chops, roast chicken, fresh fruit, and vegetables, almost constantly. In a kitchen the size of a closet—truly. It was some real Strega Nona shit.
Sometimes, to mix things up, she would experiment with new recipes or off-the-cuff, uh, flourishes. One such experiment stands out in my mom’s memory in particular.," my mom tells me over the phone, years later. And they were exactly what they sound like. My grandma died at home, with my mom and two of her home aides by her side. They knew it was coming and were her cheerleaders until the end, encouraging her, loving her, even when they didn’t think she could hear it.
“Christ. Well now she knows you’re lying!” If I’m being honest, I was delighted. Because, really, it was just the most “us” way for Grandma Clara to go.
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