There’s an outdoor brick fireplace with a roaring fire and crackling logs. Eager children are cutting tomatoes on a long wooden table. And no fewer than three nonnas, two nonnos, and a dozen other "paisanos" watch bubbling pots and a churning food mill. If you closed your eyes, you’d think you were in Italy. But actually, it’s a Pittsburgh backyard on Labor Day and we’re canning tomatoes...The old school way, as generations before us have done.
Our dear friend and local restaurant owner, Steven D’Achille, is hosting the annual event that his family looks forward to every year. It began for them "a hundred years ago" in Italy, in the Abruzzo town of Roccacinquemiglia, where his father grew up and where he still has roots firmly planted.
