Bye, Bye, Carmela Soprano by Margaret Ullrich

All good things must come to an end.

It's been fun cooking my way through Carmela's Entertaining with the Sopranos.

No, more than fun.

It was a reminder of where I came from.



I was an immigrant kid, just off the boat.

Stuck in Queens.

Some of my classmates and neighbors were kind.

Some were not.



Enjoying Ma's cooking was a guilty pleasure.

I loved our food.

Packing leftovers for