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Italian Family Food Memories
Blackberry Picking
by the late Junetta Maria Salottolo
At the Seashore - approx. 1939 - I visited my grandparents, Angela Zingales and Gaetano Zingales who were renting a summer cottage at Elberon, NJ. I was about eight years old. My Grandfather and I would take walks to the neighboring farm areas and pick blackberries. Then Grandmom would make a delicious blackberry pie.
At one point my brother, Alexander Salottolo. also visited. He was about four or five years old. One day while Grandmom was ironing, Al was playing too near the ironing board and the hot iron fell off and seared his arm. Fortunately, it wasn't too bad, but it did leave a scar.
I remember the beach at Elberon as being rather small, but the ocean waves were gigantic. Of course, remember, I'm recalling this from my memory as an eight year old.
Note: For some reason I never got this vignette published while mom was alive. We talked about this story in 2010. RIP mom. I love that you left us all these wonderful memories. xoxo Diana
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