easton family business brings healthy food to the south shore

EASTON — In the lush inexperienced hills of Cerignola, Italy in the 1960s, Rosa Prezioso Galeno tended to her necessary meals pantry filled with fish fixed in salt, flavorful beans hung to dry, flour, sugar, and yeast saved in pots.

Lifetime was less complicated in the countryside. The streets were being very small. The sunset above the hills with cotton candy-coloured skies. The meticulous preparation of foodstuff was more appreciated and beauty could be found in churning cream into sweet butter.

Galeno, 62, fell in adore with cooking as a little one and she has turned that love into a productive family business enterprise, Rosa’s Food Shoppe on Eastman Road in Easton.

The Gourmand Italian marketplace gives created-to-get dishes produced appropriate in front of you and imported Italian merchandise correct at your fingertips. While there are no tables for eating-in, there are attractive artwork and bright novelty goods to gaze at. 

Galeno grew up on 1 of 3 dairy farms about 25 miles southeast of Foggia, Italy with her mom and dad and four siblings.

The spouse and children farm sold milk to the locals. In her distant memory, she recalls if you did not make cheese, then there would be no cheese to take in.

The primary components wanted for cooking had their prolonged procedures and that made you appreciate feeding on extra. 

Escalating up on a farm was an unconventional way of daily life but there had been so a lot of satisfying facets, she explained.

Her mom realized how to make a thing out of very little. Her father would arrive residence and deliver no matter what he could uncover, and then her mom would whip up anything mouth watering.

“It was magical to dwell on a farm. It assisted me delight in ingesting a lot more mainly because I understood how hard it was to get this meals,” Galeno said.

In 1966 the relatives relocated to East Boston. There was a flourishing community of Italian immigrants in Boston, some of whom realized each and every other from Italy. The community was a melting pot of Italian immigrants willing to assistance a person yet another, which held the traditions alive, including loved ones recipes, she said.

Those recipes have been handed down from generation to generation and Galeno carries on that tradition with her three grownup small children. The food stuff is deeply layered with an infusion of aromatics, different salts, bold spices and that staple of regular Italian cooking, olive oil. 

Galeno is happy to say all the food items offered in the shoppe is healthy, all-natural and made without preservatives.

A signature dish is the shoppe’s therapeutic soup.

“When people today experience compromised or just come to feel off, the therapeutic soup is so useful to them. The therapeutic soup helps make you feel far better,” Galeno reported. 

Cooked with 18 vegetables, the gluten-free of charge soup features levels of natural veggies with small sodium information. (See beneath for recipe.)

Galeno is on a mission to offer wholesome and sustainable foods selections that are abundant in authentic Mediterranean design and not only style good but are advantageous to your entire body, she mentioned.

In addition, the shoppe has reliable products that are delivered from Italy. The selection is comprehensive, from pasta sauce and oil to Sicilian oregano, potato gnocchi and award-winning fruit preserves.

Rosa and her husband and son, equally named Peter Galeno, very own The Fieldhouse Arean sporting activities intricate in the exact same making as her connoisseur marketplace. They considered a shop inside the sports complex would be ideal location for athletes to get delicious, healthy food afterward.