Theresa Duford knows there’s something special about fresh homemade pasta. “My love of pasta started at birth. It's like inherited when you're Italian, I think,” joked Duford. Aside from the incredible taste, pasta is one thing that connects this metro Detroiter to her family roots.

 “I grew up with fresh pasta from my grandma, who came here from Italy as a child. So we all grew up with fresh pasta,” she said. It was a practice that was important to her, so in college, she asked her grandma for help to carry on the tradition.