For the Italian family food = love. Good food is central to every gathering & is always the topic of discussion. Days are planned around what will be for dinner that evening & there has to be a very good excuse to miss the family dinner. Growing up, my fondest memories are of the time spent in my Nonna's kitchen, making, pasta, gnocchi, panetonne ... There was never a recipe book in sight, as everything was added by eye 'a occhio' It was this upbringing & this communal love o