Sometime in 2018, documentary filmmaker Peter Miller, who lives in Manhattan, purchased some nettles at his local farmers’ market and, with his wife, set about making ravioli with them. They were using a recipe written by Marcella Hazan, the legendary Italian cookbook author and instructor who lived on Longboat Key from 1999 until she died in 2013.

In the 1990s, Miller and his wife attended one of Hazan’s popular cooking classes, in Connecticut, and for years had been cooking her dishes. Often, when presented with an ingredient, or stumped by a dish, they would ask each other, “What does Marcella say?” Or, “What would Marcella do?”