Song Title: Food Equals Love
Author / Artist: Louis Nichole
Master Website:: http://www.louisnichole.com
Copyright: 2005
Music Genre: Broadway / Adult Contemporary / Italian
Sample clip (Coming Soon)
When she thought I wasn’t looking
Mamma was cooking.
Mamma in the kitchen… cooking works of art
I never understood…..what made everything taste so good
But I would… if I could ask…her stuffed artichoke’s heart
Food Equals Love
Mama says….. it’s what a home is made of…
Just like her Mamma…everything she does…. because
Food equals love….
Food equals love
It‘s the way she fondles the tomatoes
Rolls rosemary on potatoes
How she’ll obsess…. picking out the best breast of veal
Or clipping coupons from the mail
Is Lamberti’s sausage still on sale?
So much of what mamma feels.. goes into every meal
Food Equals Love
Mama says….. it’s what a home is made of…
Just like her mamma…everything she does….. because
Food equals love….
Food equals love
Sometimes you can’t see the love looking right in your face
Or the love …in your lunchbox at school
Then one day… you’re able
To see love ..on the table
Right there …in mamma’s pasta fazul
One day I’ll recall ……The best times of all
In the kitchen with mama……like a fly on the wall………watching her
Baking and basting……Sautéing and tasting
Peeling … chopping……. cleaning … mopping
The little things….. that will always remain
The aromas that send me
Her rum cake.… the memory of
Her marinara… flowing through my veins
That’s what a home is made of…
That’s what a home is made of
Mamma equals love
Songwriting Inspiration:
If its not one thing it’s your mother.
Mamma wears the pants in the family…
But without those pants…..there wouldn’t be the love for food,the family, and the Italian traditions that are so intricately woven into our lives.
When I was growing up I remember saying my prayers every night before I went to bed. I would say, “ God …you know how much I love my mother…….. but when I grow up…please, God, please …… let me be like my father.
And then one day you grow up….
And you‘re your mother…. How the frig does that happen?
MAMA is known to all as Santa cucina… patron saint of the kitche….. our lady of perpetual cooking
She is famous for her homemade Italian desserts like pastachauttes and the best Italian rum cake …. her escarole soup, minestre and beans, and nonnis lasagna
She uses no recepies…handfuls of this…and handfuls of that
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For almost 25 years…. my mama cooked almost every weekend……15-20 people at my house. …my aunts and uncles.. friends and their families……… and my mother makes una festa spectacola….. .
My mother says that I will never get an ulser…..because I give them… |