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Use the smallest tomatoes you can find at the market for this recipe—they’ll be extra sweet.

A simple frittata packed with sweet red peppers, potatoes, and onions.

This red pesto tastes like a mash-up of your favorite spicy arrabbiata sauce and the anchovy-garlic dip bagna cauda. All of which is to say, it’s delicious.

In search of an alternative to the mac and cheese her kids insist on, Deb Perelman found inspiration in an iconic Italian dish.

This classic-done-right is moist but not wet, extra-fluffy, boozy but not overwhelmingly so, and made with real coffee instead of espresso powder.

Nothing drowns my sorrows like a bowl of lemony pasta.

The fail-proof gold standard has arrived.

Saltimbocca literally translates to “jumps in your mouth”—so yes, it's extremely flavorful.

Like a hot ham and cheese sandwich, but slathered with cream sauce and baked to bubbly perfection. (Yeah, it's as good as it sounds.)

Packed with Roman artwork, cozy seating, and a sprawling antique bar, the pleasure is in the details.

We call this soup French-ish because it’s not fancy or fussy, but it can be vegan if you wish.

This is the anti-cheesecake, and it’s all we’ve ever wanted.

This (vegetarian!) Italian classic is about as comforting as it gets, packed with hearty greens, meaty beans, and plenty of rich olive oil and umami-packed Parm.

This riff on the Greek classic swaps out potatoes for parsnips, which gives the dip a touch of sweetness that pairs well with the feta and chiles.

Here’s how to make the classic stacked Italian sandwich at home, courtesy of our editor in chief Adam Rapoport, the hero of heros.

This croquembouche is constructed with cheesy gougères and an herbed cheese filling. It’s the showstopping holiday appetizer you didn’t know you needed.

The key to a soup with fully developed savory flavor starts with the soffritto—a mix of slowly cooked aromatic vegetables.

Remember, the higher-quality ingredients you can find, the better the cannoli will be.

Victoria Granof showed us the way.

These ham-and-cheese bites are the perfect cocktail party appetizer.

Milk-braised pork sounds so wrong, but it’s so, so right.

This traditional Italian braised pork roast may not be one of the most photogenic dishes you’ll ever make, but it sure is one of the tastiest.

This is the hearty, rustic, and deeply warming comfort food you'll be craving on all snowy days.

This chicken-meets-bacon-meets-sausage-meets-sauerkraut showstopper takes only 25 minutes in the oven.