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Yesterday, the family spent the morning with Nonna Nerina making cannelloni virtually from Italy. What a special treat! Nonna was more the helper than chef but her grandaughter, Chiara, was an outstanding instructor explaining everything in English while visiting with Nonna in Italian. The girls and I had all ingredients bought and prepped before we logged into the site, "traveling" 30 miles from Rome into Nonna and Chiara's castle. Nonna and her family have lived there for many years. Nonna's husband had made wine on a press located in the kitchen but no an uncle uses the press only occasionally to keep the tradition alive and granddaughter, Chaira, knows the old family pasta recipes which they still use on a daily basis. Nonna showed us how to use a pasta rolling pin which is approximately three feet long while we struggled to roll our pasta dough out with a standard size rolling pin. We were told how to make the pasta dough on the wooden boards and then