West Virginian Italian American author Rosalyn Queen recently shared a few secrets and memories with WBOY. Queen sat down with 304 Today host Lauren Winans ahead of the 46th West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival in Clarksburg. Queen wrote and published “Arrivederci: Recipes and Customs Every Italian Girl Takes from Home” 20 years ago as a way to preserve the Italian culture she grew up with.

The book contains a compilation of her mother’s recipes that she grew up eating and recipes that she gathered on trips to Calabria, Italy. She told Winans that the recipes span much older than the book. “I’m 85 and I can remember probably eating them those recipes when I was five years old,” she said in the interview.