The first booth I approached had not one, but two resident nonnas.
|
|
But he does so by re-engineering the perfected recipes of grandmothers, or nonnas.
|
|
The nonnas don't have a word for this practice, but some Catholics do: intinction.
|
|
What he'd really like to say to customers who invoke their beloved nonnas is not printable here.
|
|
There is a distinct difference between a grandmother's homey kitchen and the nonnas enterprise: A grandmother never turns anyone away.
|
|
But both nonnas have since taught me that you're meant to dip bread into red wine; cake or cookies into white.
|
|
Pero sus métodos artesanales contravienen las regulaciones europeas y las autoridades han empezado a perseguir a las nonnas en sus cocinas.
|
|
For example, Sutera's nonnas quickly started pitching in to help babysit newborns coming from Senegal or Pakistan as their parents looked for work.
|
|
But the nonnas are worried that a recent a crackdown on contraband orecchiette, the city's renowned ear-shaped pasta, could threaten their way of life.
|
|
Once you've sliced down to the hard outer rind, do as countless nonnas and experienced chefs have always done, and stockpile your rinds in the freezer.
|
|
The techniques may have been passed down by generations of nonnas, but they knew what they were doing: "Preserving Italy" by Domenica Marchetti (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $23).
|
|
Last year the luxury giant Céline raised eyebrows by introducing the octogenarian Joan Didion as the face of the brand; in its fall advertising, Dolce & Gabbana prominently featured a pair of wizened nonnas.
|
|
That was the question in a federal courtroom in Pennsylvania on Thursday, where the mayor of Allentown, Pa., is on trial for charges wholly unrelated to that beefy fixture of nonnas' kitchens across the country.
|
|
Vicky Bennison, a 60-year-old British woman with a background in international development, never intended Pasta Grannies to become a minor YouTube hit or to make stars of a handful of Italian nonnas who couldn't care less about their influencer status.
|
|