Daniela Borella was born in Italy. At her two Tucson-area restaurants she serves meals prepared using recipes handed down from her grandmothers. Her mother, who for years was the cook at Borella's Caffe Torino in Oro Valley, still comes into the kitchen a couple times a week "for quality control, to make sure everything is according to her recipes," Borella said.

Still, Borella worries her two locations, in Oro Valley and the Foothills, aren't Italian enough. She is torn between giving customers the meals they like and serving food the way it is prepared in Italy.

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