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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Siobhan McNally

How making pasta helped Isabella Barbato survive cancer and grief

For Barbato, pasta became a way to preserve family memories and begin healing - (Isabella Barbato)

Isabella Barbato’s life was changed forever after a cancer diagnosis in 2018 brought her busy life as a global marketing executive to a halt. Within five years, both her parents would also pass away from the cruel disease.

“On the eve of my 35th birthday, I was told I had cancer,” the food writer and creator reveals, after finding a lump six months earlier. “The original hospital scan had come back clear, but all the time, I had this voice in my head telling me something was wrong.”

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