Italian with a Latino Twist
NBCNEWS.COM ・ JULY 2013
“When I was in elementary school in Chicago, my mother would come home from her long day at work to make dinner from scratch every night. About once a week, these macarrones cooked with sofrito, jamon and chorizo were on the menu. At first I hated them. I remember thinking: Why can’t we just have the spaghetti I see on TV? Why can’t my mom just open a jar of Ragu and pour it over some long, thin boiled noodles, like all the sitcom moms did, like the moms of my non-Latino friends at school did? Of course, the idea that she would allow her family’s dinner to come from a jar was something my mother rejected whole-heartedly, and it took many, many years for me to finally see how right she was.”