My great-grandma lived to 101. She didn’t do it with fancy powders or pricey “Mediterranean” grocery hauls. She did it the immigrant way: work hard, waste nothing, eat simply—and repeat what works.
More than a century ago, my great-grandparents left a mountain village outside Rome and started over in Pennsylvania.
And then there was her fallback meal. The one she ate when there was no time, no money, and too many mouths waiting.
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