Maria Sansone likes to keep things simple in the kitchen. Her favorite cooking tools—a box grater and a well-seasoned cast-iron pan—would be right at home in her grandmother’s kitchen. That makes sense, because some of Sansone’s earliest memories are of spending time cooking with her grandmother. As a schoolgirl in Pennsylvania, she went to her grandmother’s house for lunch—where most days she got a hot, home-cooked meal.
“I was a very lucky child in the food department,” Sansone recalls. Not only that, but every so often, there would be an extra treat, a trip
