If you dined at Tullia's, you cleaned your plate. It didn't matter who you were. You were treated like family and expected to finish everything – and then some. The joke in the Barbanti family was that the matriarch must've had a third eye, an electric eye, in the middle of each one of her plates in order to know exactly when someone was done eating.

"She'd be right there with more food," said her son Marco Barbanti, 56. "All you had to do was say 'I'm hungry,' and it's like the stove would light itself." Tullia Barbanti loved people and food and talking to people about food. She didn't care for sitting down or being still.

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