Original publication: Ferri, Laura. "The Food of Memory - Mary Melfi’s Conversations with Her Mother." Italian Canadiana 26: 2022. 139-142. DOI: 10.33137/ic.v26i.39627. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Italian Canadiana. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Italian Canadiana under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.