GRAND Magazine - Spring 2020 - 7
family and food
The cauliflower connection
CAROLINE CHIRICHELLA
F
ried cauliflower. Such a simple
dish, nothing crazy or complicated.
Cauliflower, eggs, breadcrumbs,
parsley, pecorino, seasoning, oil.
My grandma is taking the cauliflower
out of the sizzling oil. She drains it, letting the paper towel absorb the oil. I
have to do my best to wait for it all to
cool off before I dig in. But when I do,
wow. From my first bite, I'm hooked. It's
heavenly, the taste of the tender cauliflower lightly coated with bread crumbs
and cheese, still steaming hot. I lick my
fingers clean and reach for a second
piece, then a third.
All this I remember as if it were yesterday, even though it happened more
than 20 years ago.
As little kids, my older brother
Michael and I spent a lot of time with
our Grandma Nettie, my mother's
mother. Antoinette Chirichella took us
for Saturday strolls through her neighborhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We
went to the park, visited friends, and
ran a few errands. Our outings always
ended with a stop at McDonald's for
lunch.
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SPRING 2020
My brother loved the food at
McDonald's and so he would usually
order a cheeseburger and fries. But I
was a hardcore foodie from about age
six on, and I never went for the offerings there. Afterward, we would all go
back to my grandma's tiny apartment
and there, she would cook something
special just for me.
"
Every time I cook
at home now, I feel as
if my grandma
is watching over me.
"
Sometimes she prepared hot crunchy
Italian chicken cutlets. Other times she
made steaming meatballs served with
pasta and freshly made tomato sauce
- or, as referred to in our Italian household, gravy. And on still other occasions
she cooked fried cauliflower. She knew
I needed to eat, and she did it to make
me happy. She wanted my memories
from these moments together to last
me a lifetime.
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