By Siobhan Connally

If you ask Chef Rocco Verrigni, a professor of culinary arts at Schenectady County Community College, to talk about holiday meals, you'll find his tastes are firmly rooted in childhood.

"I feel very fortunate to have grown up in a multi-generational Italian home where food was important, but also in a household with a grandmother," said Verrigni, who noted cooking with his mother and grandmother informed his professional life. "Food was always in my future, I suppose," he added, explaining his father was a butcher and owned a grocery store in Schenectady where the family lived.

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