from liguria, from the hill towns of liguria, they would have these great vegetables growing there, and when the immigrants came here, it's really one of the first things they did, if they could find a little piece of land, is begin growing vegetables for their own family, these backyard gardens and things like that. and, of course, in a place like new jersey, that grew into a wonderful industry. >> sure, sure, it's the garden state, it produces, i think, three crops a year when we went to the maugeri farms, yeah. yeah, they told us. so, you save all these pieces, you know? and that -- we're going to put all that in the -- in the stuffing. so, i'm stuffing here an onion, some peppers, zucchini, even celery. you have two children, lorenzo and julia. will they like something like this? >> my kids would like this. they like things that are stuffed with bread, or you could stuff -- sometimes they do it with ground meat, you know, so the kids like that. you know, my kids are fortunate in that, from a very young age, we kept vegetables on the table. it was just -- we like vegetables, so it wa