How Tomato Sauce Is Made In Italy | Regional Eats | Food Insider

I wish if they interviewed the grandmother more, she was so excited 😍

AHAHAHAHA when the grandma goes away outta nowhere and comes back 5 minutes with her old stuff to show it to us that was so relatable LMAOOOO I'm Asian but that was such a grandma thing to do

I once had elderly landlords who were Italian immigrants. They were the salt of the earth! Every summer they made homemade sauce with their garden tomatoes and always shared some with me. They also made their own wine! The wife, Giovanna, would always knock on my door and hand me a bowl of homemade pasta with fresh sauce, or eggplant parmesan, etc. She'd say "Mangia, Mangia!". They treated me like a son. Old school Italians. So sweet.

My grandmother was born and raised in Italy and this was how she made her tomato sauce, except she called it gravy. Everything was homemade and I can still imagine the taste of her minestrone soup and raviolis, especially when she fried them. I loved listening to her speak Italian with my father. I miss you, Nona and Daddy.

I remember living in an apartment with my pregnant wife in my 20's. We rented from Italian couple but the wife did not speak English. She used to make he own sauce when her garden tomatoes ripened. When l came up the back stairs from work she would always give me home made Italian dishes.....l must have gain 20 lbs. before our son was born. I also fondly remember sitting on a bench with her husband drinking wine out of a jelly jar and talking. Great memories!!!!

There really is nothing like listening to a language you dont understand, but you understand the tone and the love and the intent. Heartwarming.

I re-watch this about twice per year. So beautiful to see three generations of a family create the sauce. I'd love to see more about their gardens.

You know, it’s kinda crazy to see how much tradition and culture can develop in 400 years. (Tomatoes were introduced to Italy in the 16th century and didn’t take off until a century later) I actually really like the familial hierarchy of making traditional tomato sauce. It’s like… artisans training to perfect their art form. An apprentice never starts out making the complicated stuff, they do the little things, the fundamentals, over and over and over again for years until they’ve perfected it. They slowly, ever so slowly, rise through the tiers of tasks and steps, perfecting along the way, getting it just right, until eventually you’re Nonna. You’ve mastered your art, practicing every season for 60, 70, 80, maybe even 90 years or more. You know precisely how to get it right every time. Your family, centuries before you and centuries after you, are blessed by the multi-generational perfection of a single, simple, food staple. I may not be Italian, not even fractionally, but this is the way I want my future family to make tomato sauce

You know the grandma has been telling her daughter shes been putting the tomatoes in the wrong way for 40 years

My cousin is married to an Italian gent and he makes sauce how his nonna does, there’s nothing like it. Italian food is the worlds treasure.

Growing up I remember my grandmother and I would make the sauce exactly like this video depicted except for one difference. Before sealing the jars we would put a dollop of extra-virgin olive oil to sit on top. We would use two jars a week for Sunday sauce and it would last a whole year. Great memory. I was about eight or nine years old. Now 77.

many years ago I lived next door to a family from Naples. One year they showed me how to do the passata by hand with a handful of tomatoes from my own garden. I've been making it the same way ever since. No jarred or store bought sauce comes close. my mouth is watering the whole time watching this video!

I'm glad they got a native italian speaker. The video feels a lot more natural. Italy is such a beautiful country and I like seeing how much more laid back the hosts seems when speaking Italian

I'm heading over to Duolingo to start learning Italian. What a lovely language.

Being Italian, back in the 50's my Mom had my older sister in the kitchen with her ever since she was 8 years old. My Mom taught her everything she knew about Italian cooking. My sister could duplicate every dish ! No Italian dishes, even in an Italian restaurant could ever come close to my Mom's cooking. What great memories and tastes ! Miss her so much.

This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen on YouTube. The generations working together to keep their recipe alive is just the way life should be. Reminds me of my mother teaching me her mad kitchen skills 💚 She’s passed 10 months ago now So thank you for that trigger of happiness in memories

I still make my sauce like this every year and I live in the USA. I've done this since I was a little girl with my mother and aunts. I made 98 jars this year.

the grandma is so excited to show her ancient sieve that she interrupts the granddaughter @ 10:53 Granddaughter: 🙂

What a great video! I love seeing old traditions being passed down. I'm 64 now and I live in South Carolina. I remember me, my dad, my grandfather, an uncle and two cousins making homemade molasses one day using sugar cane, a mule that walked in a circle to turn the mill that we fed the cane into to extract the sugars, burning oak wood and stainless steal trays to slowly cook the syrup as it passed over the fire to cook and brown the syrup on the tray as it slowly made it's way down to the jars. That was 1974 and it's in my mind like it was yesterday.

13 minutes of pure happiness, watching family tradition. Priceless