assunta’s is an artisanal food truck bringing food as a love language to life through farm to table meals. it emulates its namesake, assunta, a light-hearted italian matriarch who cooked with love to bring those closest to her together. assunta’s serves seasonally rotating recipes honoring farm-fresh ingredients and creates meals that make you feel as good as they taste. the truck will be located at nourse farm throughout its core season connecting farm-goers to food crafted with care. our main goal is to create a place of connection for the community to experience what it was like to be a part of assunta’s family through local and sustainable food.
assunta’s is truly the culmination of the food memories that have shaped her. excited to have just moved back to her hometown of westborough, amanda couldn’t think of a better place to make her culinary dream a reality. cooking has always been a passion since a young age. whether it was waking up at the crack of dawn to learn her great grandmother’s pesto recipe, learning to make ravioli from scratch with her great aunt sharon, asking her mom for a stand mixer for her 13th birthday, or creating a brand book for a.k.a sweets (a cupcake shop) with her friends on the mill pond playground: cooking has always been at her core. her appreciation for cooking took off to a whole new level in college, as she spent her summers working in the store at nourse farm surrounded by fresh, seasonal ingredients that sparked a newfound sense of creativity in the kitchen. after college, she polished her cooking skills professionally while working in the restaurant industry as a prep cook under the wing of the former owner & head chef of taberna de haro in brookline. being back at nourse farm, amanda can’t wait to bring all of these memories and passion to life through meals and memories shared with her community.
assunta, who went by the name sue, showed her love best through food. she would rise well before the sun to start her day in the kitchen cooking her family’s favorites and have her kitchen spotless again before most people even woke up. the only recipes you would find in her kitchen were often jokes clipped from the newspaper, as she worked off of instinct and passion in the kitchen. if not cooking away, you could often find her tending her garden filled with more fresh lemons than she could keep up with and basil so sweet she convinced her great grandkids she watered it with sugar. when her great granddaughter amanda wanted to learn to cook, she used that very basil to make fresh pesto as amanda watched closely and took detailed notes of the process.