This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vetantam.

Hi, everyone.

Hello, thank you.

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Sarah and David Risa recently bought a place outside of Washington, DC.

They sound excited because this is the first time they're hosting both their families.

We are making today a vegetable frittata with tomato, basil and goat cheese.

We've got home fries.

Sarah and David wanted to start a new tradition.

Cook brunch with ingredients from their home garden.

The home fries have rose marigarden and the frittata has basil from our garden.

This is Sarah's way of going back to her family's roots.

She remembers her mother doing the very same thing.

I remember growing up my mom had a garden and she would always come back with these tiny little tomatoes

and be like, I provided for my family.

Look, family, I grew this and we're like, yeah, that's the smallest tomato ever.

But there's something about being able to grow stuff and being able to give it to people that you love.

That's pretty exciting.

So, yeah.

My grandmother would always say that this is Sarah's brother's act.

The sharing food is important but I'd say the most important part is being around the table.

But food was the lure to get everyone to eat.

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