By Michael Fitzgerald

Mary Risso, the "Foccacia Queen" who baked cookies for neighbors and her mailman, has died. She was 98. "Her personality was sweet," said Risso's daughter, Marie Dremelas. "When you met her for the first time you said, 'My gosh, where has this woman been all my life?'"

And then Risso gave you homemade pasta sauce, stuffed mushrooms, stuffed onions, or her specialty, focaccia bread. Eat! Mangia! Mary Risso was born in 1917 in Stockton and raised on an eastside farm in the Italian-American community.

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