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"Actually, I think it had to do with the old ladies, each wanting to be known for their particular specialties, and they feared, that if they shared the recipes, they would lose their distinction...they were really funny old ladies.."

Oh, I am sure that is right. I just watched "The Godfather" and was being *witty*. :)

I'm half Italian, and I know how recipes can be guarded. That's why I am glad my mom has no problems sharing all her secrets. It's nice being able to make the same meal you had when you were 10.

You were *witty*...I was just slow minded today, not getting it, until you mentioned the Godfather...

One recipe that I never wanted from my hubbys grandmother was her pizza...he used to visit her on his day off from work, which was on Mondays...she would spend her weekends cooking up things for my husband(I guess because I was not a Sicilian, she figured I could not cook like she could)...she would send him home to me, with breads, and treats, and jars of homemade Minnestrone soup...and then out would come the pizza...

The first time I unloaded this shopping bag, and saw the pizza I thought it looked odd...it had a very thick crust, and looked 'furry'....I thought what an odd pizza...but I popped it into the oven to heat it up...

Then when I tasted it, it was awful...tasted too fishy...well, of course, said the hubby, thats her famous 'Sardine Pizza'....well, I cannot stand sardines...but my husband was raised on Sardine Pizzas...I guess the old grandmother, having grown up in Sicily, and not having left there until she was in her 20s, and Sicily being surrounded by water, and they use fish in everything, it was just natural to her, to make sardine pizzas...that is one pizza I can do without...