I spent time in southern Italy learning how to cook. In fact even now when we can go, I usually end up in someone's kitchen learning how to cook something.
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My cousin married a woman whose father has owned a couple of Italian resturants in NYC during his career. Father-in-law has always claimed it was his mother's wonderful cooking that inspired his success - it became part of his personal legand he shared with family, friends and clients.

Every year the family went back to Italy to see Grandma and while there her father would not let his saint of a mother cook - she worked so hard for so many years, backbone of his success, his turn to wait on her, sit, sit, spend time with your grandkids and great grandkids.....and he would take over his mother's kitchen and she never cooked.

Well after 20 some years of this, he had a heart attack, and Grandma flew to New York for the first time, determined to take care of her boy. For the first time the grandkids and greatgrand kids got to enjoy Grandma's legandary cooking that inspired resturants...

....Grandma can't cook. She can barely boil water.

He finally admitted it was just how awful his mother's cooking was that drove him to be successful - no one should have to eat such bad food!

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