LCOOKING ove& Tomatoes
Former restaurateur
Rose Carvelli cooks in
the Italian tradition
BY SUE-ELLEN SANDERS
PHOTOS BY ROB DOWNEY
When Rose Carvelli was a little girl growing
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up in Brooklyn, she spent Sunday
mornings before church in the kitchen
with the women in her family, getting
the food prepared for the big Sunday
afternoon meal. Her cooking lessons were informal
and the recipes were filed in her head, for the day
when she would be an Italian mother herself.
Cooking was always fun, never a job. When she
met and married her husband, Joseph, who just happened
to be a New York State registered chef, they
ran a restaurant together in Brooklyn. “I learned more
about commercial cooking from him,” says Rose. “It
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Rose Carvelli and granddaughter, Gina, grate cheese to top Rose’s eggplant rolletini.
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