Franco and Margaret Romagnoli brought real Italian cooking to a national audience in the mid-1970s with their public television series "The Romagnolis' Table." The show sparked a number of cookbooks and three restaurants. "They presented to the American public for the first time what was authentically served at the table by the multitudes," Marco Romagnoli, of Corinth, Vt., said of his parents.

"It was very simple stuff." Simple, maybe. But at a time when most Americans equated Italian food with spaghetti and meatballs, what the Romagnolis were cooking on television was a revelation. Lidia Bastianich, the celebrity chef, restaurateur, cookbook author and television cooking star, said the Romagnolis were among the first to present a "real traditional kind of Italian food."

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