- The interviewee grew up in Pachino, Sicily in the 1940s-50s. His family came from artisan/trading backgrounds. - Typical meals for his family included homemade biscuits and milk for breakfast, pasta and bread for lunch, and soup or eggs for dinner. Meat was eaten twice a week and included home-raised pigs. - His favorite childhood foods were sandwiches with mortadella, Nutella, or "country chocolate." To preserve foods, his family used a wooden crate lined with zinc and half a block of ice before refrigerators arrived. - While today's foods aim to be healthier, he believes the foods from his childhood were more genuine since animals were home-raised