THE DISTRICT

In a story that begins just before her birth in 1928, Rose Grieco&rsquo,s memoir is an intimate and finely detailed portrait of her beloved neighbourhood and the family, friends and neighbours she grew up with. In this respect, it&rsquo,s also a universal story, familiar to anyone whose parents or grandparents immigrated to a new land and made it all the richer with the customs, recipes and traditions they brought with them. Toronto&rsquo, s fashionable Little Italy remains one of Canada&rsquo,s most renowned Italian-Canadian communities. Rose&rsquo,s lyrical writing style, along with dozens of evocative photos, brings to life more than fifty years of history in a community where &ldquo,everyone knew everybody.&rdquo, At eighty-seven years young, Toronto-based Rose Grieco is a mother, grandmother, restaurateur (retired), poet, songwriter, independent publisher, and author. When she closed her restaurant (Mama Rosa&rsquo,s) in 1993, Rose thought she&rsquo,d like to write a cookbook inspired largely by her mother&rsquo,s home cooking. But the more she explored the many facets of her own family&rsquo,s journey, the more the story began to take a much different direction. (It does, however, include a sampling of some of her mother&rsquo,s best, and easiest to follow, recipes.) The result, twenty-two years and many rewrites later, is &ldquo,The District