Cooking is mother-in-law’s greatest joy; she turns 90 in May.
When she is with any of her 6 children, now in 50s and 60s, she wants to be involved with food prep.
Legal immigrant from Italy about 1947, old world arranged marriage.
Pasta, sauce, and cookies for her son-in-lay, yours truly.
As a SoCal native, I narrowly prefer Mexican to Italian, but I don’t tell her that.
I learned some Italian cooking from ex in-laws. Just enough to be able to make good sauce and fig cookies, stuffed artichokes. but I’m kind of a natural cook, so I can make almost anything except gourmet stuff.