At Nonna Gina’s in Branford, there are no shortcuts, but there is gelato

May 26, 2022 1251

BY: Ed Stannard

You didn’t take shortcuts in Anastasia “Gina” DiNatale’s kitchen, whether it was peeling the garlic or making tomato sauce from scratch. When she went food shopping, “she never went with a shopping list,” said her daughter, Giuliana Maravalle, who does much of the cooking in her daughter’s and son-in-law’s new restaurant, Nonna Gina’s Prepared Foods and Gelateria.

“She felt you go there and, if the string beans look good this week we’ll make something with string beans,” she said. “And if it’s the spinach we’ll make something with spinach. … That was always her method of cooking. Now in retrospect I do the same thing.”

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SOURCE: https://www.nhregister.com

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