Ted Harrison and Lorne Davies

: The food – hearty Italian classics – never changed, according to Globe and Mail. But as my mother and her siblings got older, they moved away from home and committed the cardinal sin of marrying outside of their ethnicity. The dinner table, an oversized fixture in a modest kitchen, was a gathering spot for casual weeknight meals, holiday dinners and seemingly endless gossip sessions. They never learned their mother recipes. Her cooking does more than just provide sustenance – it brings together a family, and offers us a taste of a shared cultural heritage. My nonna still spends the majority of her days cooking, slowly simmering batches of meat sauce to be frozen and distributed to her 15 grandkids or layering pans of lasagna for quick weeknight meals for her daughters. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.