Zia Marietta’s Pasta & Rice Soup

A simple soup that carries a family’s warmth across continents. Zia Marietta was my mum’s aunt, nonna Peppina’s sister. While I don’t have many memories of nonna Peppina, I remember Marietta clearly. We would visit her often – my mum, my sister and I – and her home always felt calm, warm and lived-in. Two of her three sons, Giovanni and Giuseppe, had left Sicily to build a new life in the United States. My mum would talk fo