However, after my great grandma passed away, my grandparents didn’t keep big gardens or chickens of their own. This brought our old ravioli tradition into our conversation. For several years, our big family had a tradition of making ravioli together. They didn’t always turn out perfect, but in my grandma’s words, “It was never about the ravioli – it was about coming together to make something.” We eventually started making other things for big family dinners because the ravioli was too much of a production — but still, that extra step of coming together became another fond memory, another thing we “did with our grandparents.”Why make ravioli? If there’s one thing I know from my own family’s traditions with food, it’s that it was never about the ravioli, the gardens were never about eating healthy.

Source: Daily Sun April 17, 2020 23:26 UTC