Nona’s Italian Meatloaf

Among traditional comfort foods, meatloaf is a clear favorite. Southern cooks have made them in cast-iron skillets for generations, usually baked in the oven. But my friend Bobby D’Angelo, a chef, told me that his grandmother Nora La Rose cooked hers in a skillet. As a seamstress raising two daughters alone, with minimal time, she put the meat mixture together in the morning and cooked it on the stovetop when she got home. It took about 35 minutes. Nora used Crisco, but vegetable oil also w