One of Deirdre Capone’s fondest memories of her great uncle is him standing in the kitchen, a pinny tied around his waist, teaching her how to cook spaghetti.
She recalls: “He said, ‘You’ll know it’s done Deirdre’, and he’d pick up one noodle and throw it against the wall. ‘If it sticks, it’s done, if it slides off it’s not done yet’.
He loved to cook.” As her surname suggests, Deirdre’s great uncle was America’s most infamous gangster, Al Capone. Deirdre, now 80, who says she is “probably the last person on this Earth” to have properly known him, is chatting from her home in Florida as the latest movie about her beloved “Uncle Al” is released on Netflix this week.
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