If you’re reading this, then you have no doubt noticed the handwriting, all over this web site, that serves as our logo and branding. The penmanship is likely familiar to anyone with Italian heritage. It is a very typical style of writing for early generation Italians, which one can only assume is because that is the style that was taught at Italian schools.
The image on this website is a photo of a recipe written out by my mother. Our cuisine is all about authenticity and most of our menu options are family recipes passed down from my mother, so what better image to serve as our logo?
Nevertheles, for those of you who know what Italian mothers can be like, it ma seem contradictory to have an image of a hand-written recipe as a logo to represent authentic Italian cuisine because most Italian mothers never cook from a written recipe. It’s all in their head and cooking is a “bit of this” and a “bit of that”.. Well, truth be told, my mother is no different. The recipe image on this site was one that she wrote out upon request.
Allow me to explain. Quite a few years ago, my amazing wife, knowing my love of cooking and Italian cuisine and family heritage, planned a one-of-a-kind birthday gift for me. Months before my birthday, she secretly asked my mother to start writing out as many of her recipes as she could remember, and she obliged. The result was dozens of pieces of papers with recipes for dishes that I grew up eating my whole life, in amazing prose that practically allows you to hear her voice while cooking. My wife then packaged them all up and presented it to me on my birthday, and I can tell you without a doubt that it is the best present I have ever received. It is something I will treasure forever. In fact, the originals are stored safely away and a binder with photocopies sits in my kitchen.
It doesn’t get any more real than that.