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Spaghetti Carbonara
Real Roman carbonara has no cream in it — just eggs, Pecorino, guanciale and black pepper emulsified into a glossy…
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Baked Mac and Cheese
A baked macaroni cheese with a proper béchamel, three cheeses and a buttered breadcrumb top. Evaporated milk and a…
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Lasagna Bolognese
A proper lasagne alla Bolognese is a study in patience: a three-hour ragù, a nutmeg-scented besciamella and…
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Spaghetti Aglio e Olio
Four ingredients, twelve minutes, and one of the great late-night dishes of the world. The whole thing turns on how…
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Fettuccine Alfredo
Before the cream and the garlic crept in, Alfredo was three ingredients: pasta, butter and Parmigiano, whipped…
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Pasta Puttanesca
Tomatoes, anchovies, olives, capers and chilli — a sauce built entirely from the store cupboard in the time the…
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Pesto alla Genovese
Genoese pesto made the traditional way, with basil bruised rather than blitzed, so the sauce stays emerald green…
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Cacio e Pepe
Two ingredients, one technique, endless opportunity to get it wrong. This cacio e pepe recipe uses a Pecorino slurry…
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Bucatini all'Amatriciana
The Roman classic from Amatrice: guanciale rendered until crisp, tomatoes cooked down in the rendered fat, and…
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Spaghetti alle Vongole
Clams opened in white wine and garlic, their liquor emulsified with olive oil and pasta water into a sauce that…
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Pasta e Fagioli
Pasta and beans, cooked together so the pasta starch thickens the broth into something between a soup and a stew…
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Penne all'Arrabbiata
Angry pasta, and rightly so: garlic bloomed slowly in olive oil, dried chilli, and tomatoes cooked hard enough to…
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Pasta alla Norma
Catania's great pasta: fried aubergine folded into a bright tomato sauce and finished with salty ricotta salata…
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Ragù Napoletano
Naples' answer to bolognese, and nothing like it: whole cuts of beef and pork simmered in tomato for four hours…
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Pastitsio
Greek baked pasta: tubes of bucatini standing on end under spiced lamb and a thick béchamel set with egg and cheese…
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Pasta alla Gricia
The ancestor of both carbonara and amatriciana: guanciale, pecorino and black pepper, with no egg and no tomato…
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Minestrone Soup
A big, generous vegetable soup built on a slow soffritto and thickened by the beans themselves rather than cream…
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Soupe au Pistou
A Provençal summer vegetable soup finished at the table with pistou — basil, garlic and olive oil pounded to a…
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Egyptian Koshari
Egypt's national street dish: layers of rice, lentils and pasta under a spiced tomato sauce, garlic vinegar and a…
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Ash Reshteh
A thick Persian soup of beans, lentils, greens and noodles, finished with fried mint oil, crisp onions and kashk.
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Chicken Alfredo
Seared chicken over fettuccine in a sauce built from butter, cream and a great deal of real Parmigiano, emulsified…
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Spaghetti Bolognese
A three-hour ragù with milk in it, finished with the pasta rather than ladled over it. Not the twenty-minute version…
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Baked Ziti
Ziti layered with a quick tomato sauce, ricotta and two more cheeses, baked until the top blisters. The pasta comes…
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Penne alla Vodka
The pink sauce, done properly: tomato purée cooked hard until it darkens, vodka to carry the aromatics, and cream…
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Shrimp Scampi
Prawns, garlic, white wine, lemon and a great deal of butter, over linguine, in twenty minutes. The prawns come out…
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Tuna and Caper Pasta
Store-cupboard pasta that tastes like it took an hour: tuna in oil, capers, chilli and lemon, emulsified with pasta…
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Mushroom Stroganoff
Mushrooms browned hard in three batches, then a paprika and mustard sauce finished with cashew cream. The sourness…
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Butternut Mac and Cheese
A sauce of butternut squash, cashews and potato, blended smooth with nutritional yeast and mustard. It is orange, it…
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Macarona Bechamel
Penne bound in béchamel over a layer of spiced mince, baked until the top sets into a sliceable crust. Egypt by way…
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Hlelem
A thick soup of hand-broken noodles, three kinds of bean and a lot of greens, red with harissa. Winter food from the…
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Gratin de Macaronis
Macaroni in a nutmeg béchamel under Gruyère and breadcrumbs. The French version is looser and less cheesy than the…
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Tagliatelle al Ragù
The Bologna ragù, which contains almost no tomato and cooks for three hours. Served on fresh egg tagliatelle and…
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Tortellini in Brodo
Tiny filled pasta in clear capon broth, and nothing else. Emilia at Christmas, and the broth matters as much as the…
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Agnolotti del Plin
Piedmontese filled pasta pinched shut along a single strip, so a row of them comes off the sheet in one go. Plin…
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Culurgiones
Sardinian parcels of potato, mint and pecorino, closed with a pleat that looks like an ear of wheat. The pleat takes…
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Strozzapreti alla Boscaiola
Hand-rolled twists in a boscaiola of mushrooms, sausage and cream. The name means priest-stranglers and nobody has a…
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Pizzoccheri della Valtellina
Buckwheat ribbons layered with cabbage, potato and melting cheese under browned butter and sage. Alpine food, and…
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Pasta alla Genovese
Naples' onion ragù, in which four kilos of onions cook down for four hours with a piece of beef until they turn…
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Pasta e Ceci
Chickpeas and broken pasta cooked into a thick soup with rosemary. Roman, cheap, and better than the sum of its…
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Pasta con le Sarde
Sardines, wild fennel, raisins, pine nuts and saffron. Sicily's Arab inheritance on a plate, and the toasted…
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Pesto Pasta
Basil pounded with pine nuts and cheese, loosened with pasta water and tossed off the heat. Twenty-two minutes.
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Lunch
Minestrone
Whatever vegetables are about, cooked long and slow with beans and a little pasta. Under an hour, and it improves…
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Dinner
Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
Anchovy, olive, caper and tomato cooked hard for twenty minutes. Nothing in it is fresh and it is one of the best…
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Ragù alla Bolognese
Minced beef and pork cooked three hours in milk, wine and a little tomato. Not the red mince sauce, and worth the…
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Youvetsi
Beef baked with orzo in a cinnamon-scented tomato sauce until the pasta has drunk the lot. One dish, ninety minutes.
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Turkish Pilav
Rice and orzo cooked in butter until every grain is separate. Thirty minutes, and it goes with almost everything…
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Spaghetti and Meatballs
Meatballs browned and finished in the sauce, over spaghetti. Italian-American, and none the worse for it.
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