I want pasta for Easter supper instead of ham and pimento cheese. This Easter, I want to ditch the usual Sunday brunch menu I put together: Pineapple casserole, drop biscuits, honey-glazed ham, green beans, deviled eggs, pimento cheese, more ham and pound cake. Instead I want a heavy, can’t-eat-one-more-bite Italian feast, because, pasta.

I’ll fly the Southern cuisine flag all day long for pimento cheese and collard greens, but after Dining & Dishing with Taste of Italy owner Chris Guarino, I’m formally asking his family to adopt me. What he told me about how the Italians and Italian-Americans do Easter made me question everything I believe in when it comes to Easter supper.