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

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

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.

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

Making tomato sauce was a big event here in South Italy. My whole family would gather, and other neighbour families, and we would make the sauce with the tomatoes from our fields, over a couple days, and stock it for the whole year. We would have a big celebration lunch all togheter when finished. I miss my grandparents ..

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 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!!!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

13 minutes of pure happiness, watching family tradition. Priceless

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

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 remember my grandfather making sauce every weekend. On Friday he would take the tomatoes, peeled them then pushed each one through a strainer to remove the seeds. He only used plum tomatoes. Then he would start reducing the sauce on Saturday morning then add the meat about noon. It sat on a low flame all weekend until Sunday dinner. My gramma would make the homemade ravioli. So good. I'm glad I payed attention.

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.

5:54 White sneakers while separating the tomatoes. I, too, like to live dangerously

Im hispanic and I love Italian food. My parents would say I was switched at birth. Somewhere there is an Italian family whose son craves beans and red chile.

So beautifully simple, tomatoes, salt, sugar, a basil leaf, and 3 generations of love. I think i got something in my eyes. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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!