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He\u2019s been a fixture on the Food Network for 15 years. Now celebrity chef Scott Conant has launched a new line of pasta sauces based on recipes from his childhood in Waterbury.<\/p>\n
For Conant, coming to Connecticut is coming home.<\/p>\n
One of his former high school teachers, Maureen Buell, still remembers him as a student with big ambitions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am so proud of what he has become. I watch him on TV all the time,\u201d Buell said.<\/p>\n
Conant\u2019s career as a Food Network star, restaurateur and cookbook author had an unlikely start. In vocational high school in Waterbury, he wanted to enroll in the plumbing program.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t get in. So as a second choice, I chose culinary arts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like it was kind of divine intervention to a certain extent that put me on this path.\u201d<\/p>\n
That turn in the road also took him back to a place on Martone Street in Waterbury.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have these memories of my grandparents on Martone Street taking these tomatoes and peeling them, eating them, putting them in, you know, pureeing them, putting them in a jar,\u201d Conant said.<\/p>\n
The home where his grandfather grew fresh ingredients and sauce was on the stove became the inspiration for his new line of pasta sauces, complete with a blue label as a nod to the Connecticut state flag.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you were to come to my house and I would cook for you, this is exactly the same ingredients in the same product,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
And just like on Martone Street, family and friends gathered in town for a taste and a chance to say hello. Conant\u2019s mother, daughters and wife were among those on hand.<\/p>\n
Buell said the moment reflected his connection to home.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of people just go away and don\u2019t come back. And Scott comes back,\u201d she said. \u201cHe always had a special place for home. Having that moment of memory with food, in that connection at the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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