Made with Love Mama Mancini’s Meatball Recipe from Bay Ridge

Made with Love

Mama Mancini’s Meatball Recipe from Bay Ridge

by Caitlin McNamara (Caitlin@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-02-2009

Grandson Makes It Public

By Caitlin McNamara

BAY RIDGE — Daniel Mancini has made at least one man cry with his grandmother’s meatball and tomato sauce recipe.

The man was nearly 80 and hadn’t eaten a meatball since his Italian mother passed away. Although he first said no, he was persuaded by Mancini to try one during a supermarket tasting demonstration, after they discovered that Mancini’s grandmother and the man’s mother were both originally from Bari, Italy.

The man cried, saying, “I’m tasting my mother’s meatball right now.”

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