Spill the Sauce: A Sunday Table Podcast

What happens when something deeply personal leaves the family table and becomes something public? In this episode, Maria sits down with Alessandra and her mom, Anna, to talk about what food means inside an Italian family and what changes when tradition turns into livelihood. This is not a conversation about recipes or technique. It’s about inheritance, responsibility, pride, and the quiet pressure...

This solo episode sits with memory, responsibility, and what happens when history is flattened, ignored, or selectively remembered. In The Cost of Forgetting , Maria reflects on storytelling not as content, but as inheritance — and on the consequences that come when we forget who and where we come from. This episode moves through immigration history, shared Italian and Black American experiences,...

This is a solo episode. In this conversation, Maria reflects on caretaking — what it looks like when love, responsibility, and food become deeply intertwined. She shares what it meant to become her mother’s caregiver at nineteen, how that role shaped her identity over time, and how it followed her into marriage, motherhood, and now caring for her father. This episode explores: food as love and obl...

In this episode of Spill the Sauce: A Sunday Table Podcast , my sister joins me for a conversation about language — not just words, but accent, rhythm, and the things we absorb growing up without anyone ever explaining them. We talk about sharing the same childhood but carrying it differently, becoming aware of our voices outside the home, and how language can shape identity, belonging, and memory...

Featuring my husband In this episode of Spill the Sauce, I’m joined by my husband to talk about what it means to marry into a family where the culture already exists before you arrive. We talk about learning a language that isn’t taught — it’s lived. The unspoken rules. The rhythm of the table. The way food becomes connection. And how belonging slowly takes shape through showing up again and again...

This is a short trailer for Episode 2 of Spill the Sauce: A Sunday Table Podcast . In this episode, my husband joins me to talk about what it means to learn the language of a family — not through words, but through showing up. We talk about food, culture, and what it’s like to marry into a family where the rhythm already exists before you arrive. I saved you a seat. New episodes every Sunday.

Sunday dinner was never just about food. It was about showing up, staying, loving loudly, and holding space for joy and grief at the same table. In this first episode of Spill the Sauce: A Sunday Table Podcast , I talk about food, family, memory, and the moments that shape us — often without us realizing it. Like Sunday dinner — messy, funny, heartfelt, and un po’ pazza. Pull up a chair.

Spill the Sauce: A Sunday Table Podcast is a space for stories, culture, food, family, laughter, and the moments that sneak up on you emotionally. Like Sunday dinner — messy, funny, heartfelt, and un po’ pazza. New episodes begin this Sunday. Pull up a chair — I saved you a seat.