By Mary Wade Burnside

Scott Sears and Larry Puccio grew up a few doors from each other in Fairmont with a tradition of big Italian Sunday family dinners and food fresh from the garden. "I've always joked about this," Sears said. "I don't think I had eaten anything from a grocery store as far as bread or vegetables until I was 10.

"Everything was made fresh. The vegetables were all grown in gardens and they made bread every Friday and Saturday. In an older Italian kitchen, all pastas were made from scratch, and all sauces were made from tomatoes and celery and onions and basil that came out of the garden."

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