Pasta Queen food lover reveals dramatic journey to chef, mom and author [Video]

A woman known on social media as the “Pasta Queen” revealed to Fox News Digital why she’s so passionate about making and serving Italian food to her friends and family today.  

Nadia Caterina Munno, a Florida chef, mom and cookbook author, was born and raised in Rome, Italy, by a family who taught her how to make pasta from a young age, she said. 

In a Zoom interview, Munno detailed those experiences — and shared why she rejected some of those early traditions for a period of time as a teenager before finally reclaiming them as an adult and making them her own. (See the video at the top of this article.)

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With a lineage of pasta makers dating back to the 1800s, she said she was often taken as a child to her family’s wheat farm for harvesting. 

“We would pick tomatoes, fruits, potatoes, zucchini, eggplants, broccoli — all sorts of …