His books introduced me to regional Italian cooking, historical recipes, and inspired a several-year passion for making pasta. What are some of your favorite of his recipes? Here are mine:
Fine Art of Italian Cooking
- Pumpkin tortelli Modena style (with amaretti cookies)
Classical Techniques
- Chocolate pasta in sweet and spicy sauce
- Caponata
- Porcini mushroom soup
Bugialli on Pasta
- Bucatini amatriciana
- Pasta with artichokes
- Penne with sausage, sage, rosemary, and tomatoes
Sardinia and Sicily
- Eggplant grilled in salmoriglio sauce
- Malloreddus with scallion-flavored tomato sauce
- Chickpea soup with mushrooms