Clam Bellies And Apizza

Follow me through my childhood meals, led by my dominant mother Ro "the Boss". Learn about the foods I loved and hated as a grew from feetie pajamas to crushes on TV Cartoon characters. This is part one. 

Episode two of Clam Bellies and Apizza memoir podcast takes us back to new haven in the 1960's. I tell the stories of how my toe grandmothers--Nonnies this is, get me interested in food. Lots of laughs! I also include a recipe for my BIG Nonnies Minestra and some great surf rock at the end.

Clam Belles and Apizza is a Chef's memoir of the foods I ate growing up in the Northeast that inspired me to become a chef. The stories are about foods that my grandmothers (Nonnies), my mother, my stepfather, waitresses, chefs and other maniacs MADE me eat. From "Abeetz", Clam Bellies and Subs in New Haven, to cheap Vietnamese and Indian food in Boston and Cambridge, to munching my way through the 1980's East Village, I have eaten everything, and now I cook everything! I've been in the "Chef's Life" for over 40 years and I still love the foods I ate growing up.