Spaghetti Traditions

A Grandchild of Italy Cracks the Spaghetti Code.  Kim Severson (NY Times: Free reg req)

To understand why I made my sauce the way I did, I needed to start closer to home, with my mother. She has been making spaghetti sauce for almost 60 years, from a recipe she learned from her mother, who had been making it with American ingredients since the early 1900s.