Food contains most of the answers within itself; we only need to know how to ask it the right questions. What we eat, what we try in the kitchen, where and how we sit at the table, the food education we receive, the recipes we pass down—it all tells almost everything about us and the families we grow up in. Inside a single tureen are memory and culture, gender and geography, distance and connection.
Sugo is a glimpse into the relationship between food and our identity. It is an ode to the food of our lives, hearty and real: the food we were lucky enough to have prepared for us as children. It is a book—at once personal and generously interested in the tables of others—that invites us to look beyond the plate and illuminate the dynamics that have made us who we are. With our values, certain appetites, and many desires.
