{"id":203,"date":"2026-01-18T20:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2026-01-18T20:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:06:37","slug":"nonnas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Nonna&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">We screened the movie, <em>Nonnas<\/em><br>which left us aching: <br>how must that mysterious mythical<br>Sunday gravy taste?<br><br>He dug online until he arrived<br>at a copy of the vaunted<br>Nonna's Sunday Gravy<br>from Enoteca Maria on Staten Island.<br><br>We ran sourcing missions<br>at two local markets and<br>came back equipped with the<br>building blocks of generational love.<br><br>Afternoon into evening, he stirred<br>simmered sieved and sliced<br>bearing witness as distinct foods<br>begat a perfumed sinfonia. <br><br>Darkness laid thick upon us<br>Headlights climb the hill<br>Grandpa arrives with appetite<br>We sit down for the promised meal.<br><br>We light the candles<br>share our I'm Grateful Fors<br>some grate Parmigiano Reggiano and we<br>dive into steaming bowls of comfort.<br><br>Room falls silent as each family member <br>plunges into a private reverie<br>a meditation evoked only by those<br>meals which transcend time.<br><br>Forks clatter down on emptied dishes<br>piercing reverential stillness.<br>Someone murmurs, <br>Would you like some more?<br><br>Chairs drag eagerly along rug<br>metal ladle scrapes the bottom of enameled iron and a <br>chorus of unguarded sighs of delight radiate warmth<br>as our family melds together like all-day red sauce.<br><br><br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nonna&#8217;s,&#8221; a culinary homage to the grandmothers who keep heritage and family alive through their recipes. Poem 018 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: Nonna&#8217;s Sunday Gravy over pasta, (c) Diana Ludwick 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}