Regional Recipe
Potato Gnocchi
Tender ridged dumplings made by hand
Venite a tavola.
RO & TI
A granddaughter’s table, carried forward from her grandparents’ kitchen. Recipes, family stories, and things worth keeping.
Recipes to begin with
From the Kitchen
Italian Family Cooking
Pasta e Ceci
Pasta and chickpeas for an ordinary evening
Calabria / Cosenza
Patate ’Mpacchiuse
Sliced potatoes cooked until sticky and crisp at the edges
Regional Recipe
Pasta e Patate
A thick, starchy pasta and potato supper
Calabria / Cosenza
Fileja alla ’Nduja
Hand-rolled Calabrian pasta in a spreadable chilli salami sauce
Calabria / Cosenza
Licurdia
The red onion and potato soup of Cosenza
The objects around the meal
For the Kitchen & Table
A small opening collection — more coming to the table soon.
Tools, provisions, linens, artwork, and objects chosen because they earn their place in the kitchen.
Make it at home
Gnocchi, from the board to the bowl.
The recipe comes first. When a tool helps, we show you the one we used—quietly, after the cooking begins.
Cook the recipe
Inheritance, not nationality
Ro & Ti
Ro was Romualdo. Ti was Titina. They were born and raised in Castiglione Cosentino, Calabria, married there, and built a life in America while keeping the ways of home. Their granddaughter Erika is carrying on that simple, hard-won knowledge: cooking from memory, growing and preserving food, and making things by hand.
Our Story
Recipes without the noise
Cook first.
The recipes are free, direct, and made to be used beside a cutting board. No banner ads. No video covering the ingredients. No long detour before dinner.
The kitchen surrounding each recipe supports the work: a useful board, a good bowl, a spoon that earns its place.
Notes on food and place
From the Journal
Family Story
Ro Made the Wine
There was wine on the table at dinner, every day, and my grandfather made it himself.
Read the note →Family Story
Cucina Povera in My Grandparents’ Kitchen
Not a style of cooking. A way of running a household, kept up long after it had to be.
Read the note →