A Sicilian Style Pizza Pastry
Mignolates are pastry filled with foccacia/pizza ingredients. Nonna Schiavone's Mignolates started with my grandmother’s traditional recipes of meatball and spinach mignolates.
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Nonna's Story
My grandmother, Caterina Neri, came to America in 1916 from Porto Empedocle, Sicily. She met my grandfather to be, Michael Schiavone, on the way to America and settled in Buffalo, N.Y. They married the same year and went on to have a family of 5 boys along the way. It was common in the early 1900's for families of the same ethnicity that immigrated to America to group together in communities and neighborhoods.
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