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Unlike most Italian men, chef Marco Xodo is not a mamma\u2019s boy. Instead, he is a nonna\u2019s<\/em> boy.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mum used to work, so she would drop me off at Grandma\u2019s,\u201d Xodo recalls. \u201cEvery day she was cooking for six, seven people because the family was quite big. I remember she was in the kitchen from the first hours of the morning until the evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was always cooking, cooking, cooking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Xodo would also spend summers with his paternal grandmother in Calabria, in the south of Italy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still remember the smell of the food and ingredients,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI always tried to help my grandma. Every time I passed the kitchen, she always gave me something to try.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ninetta is a new restaurant by three Italian hospitality veterans, including chef Marco Xodo. Photo: May Tse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

One dish that stayed with him was her simple tomato pasta, made with produce from her garden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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