FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – When Italian families immigrated to the United States in large numbers in the 1900s, the women brought with them the recipes for their favorite traditional dishes. Some of the dishes changed, based on what ingredients were more readily available here in the United States. The Italian-American cuisine these women invented, includes dishes like lasagna, minestrone soup, and penne alla vodka.
The lives of these Italian daughters, moms, grandmas, and their families was not easy. Many were not wealthy and many faced discrimination by those that did not welcome their immigration to the country.
To give these women the credit they did not receive in their lifetimes, author Lucinda Scala Quinn wrote “Mother Sauce: Italian American Family Recipes and the Story of the Women Who Created Them”…