The Russo family, written down
A house in Brunswick, Sunday sugo under the vine, and coffee for anyone at the door.
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Salvatore Russo
Salvatore Russo (1931–2012), Nonno, left a hill village in Calabria by ship in 1955, laid railway track across Victoria for six years, then built houses — including his own, in Brunswick, with a lemon…
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The House in Brunswick
A weatherboard house in Brunswick with a deep veranda, built out and up by Nonno over twenty years, with a vegetable garden where the lawn should be and a lemon tree by the gate.
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Nonna's Sunday Sugo
The tomato sauce that started on Saturday night and was eaten on Sunday afternoon, made from the passata Nonna bottled every February from the garden in Brunswick.
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Sunday Lunch Under the Vine, 1980
The Sunday lunch at Brunswick in the summer of 1980, when the first grandchild was baptised and twenty-six people ate under the grapevine until dark.
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Concetta Russo
Concetta Russo (1934–2016), Nonna, married Salvatore by proxy and crossed to Melbourne alone in 1958 to meet a husband she had last seen at nineteen. She ran the house, the garden and the sugo.
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The Moka Pot
The coffee pot Nonno carried from Calabria in 1955, and the people it made coffee for.
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