‘Pasta Queen’ food lover reveals dramatic journey to chef, mom and author

A mother and chef known as the "Pasta Queen" shared her love of Italian dishes, how she rediscovered her traditional roots and why she celebrates them today in a new book.

In a Zoom interview, Munno detailed those experiences — and shared why she rejected some of those early traditions for a period of time as a teenager before finally reclaiming them as an adult and making them her own. (See the video at the top of this article.) "I can still vividly smell the richness and earthiness of the soil, my beloved ‘dirt.'" "Christmas Eve would not be complete without insalata di mare on the table." Brittany Kasko is a lifestyle production assistant with Fox News Digital. 

With a lineage of pasta makers dating back to the 1800s, she said she was often taken as a child to her family’s wheat farm for harvesting.