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Personal Narrative: My Homemade Italian Family

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Christmas, birthdays, Sunday dinners, and even on thanksgiving the dinner table is not complete until one famous family dish arrives. They can be smelled as soon as you enter the door and they make your mouth water with one glance. Homemade Italian meatballs covered in marinara sauce and sprinkled with parmesan cheese. I cannot recall any significant day with my family that my mother did not prepare her homemade meatballs. My Italian family believes meatballs and pasta should be feasted on at every family event. Whether they are accompanied by baked ziti, lasagna, spaghetti, ravioli, or linguini the meatballs are never missing.
The meatball tradition is deeper than just a tray of round meaty deliciousness for me. The pure bliss of my mother

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