Maddy and her Nonna spent many hours cooking together, with the younger woman learning secret family recipes from her family's matriarch Maddy's uncle ultimately chose her to receive the pot, in a ...

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Between stirs at her stove, Maddy DeVita pauses to chat. “I’m making my Nonna’s risotto for my cousins who are coming over for dinner,” the 26-year-old food influencer and private chef tells PEOPLE.