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We asked the Yale historian who wrote the book Ten Restaurants That Changed America.

Paul Freedman

Finding the cure to what ails me under a blanket of cheese

Carey Polis

I look at the way Italian Americans have progressed from a demonized immigrant group to an unquestioned part of the country’s fabric, and I think, Damn, I want that too.

Chris Ying

BA’s wine editor has a not-so-guilty pleasure.

Marissa A. Ross

Hilary Cadigan

How do you keep the old customers while also courting the new? Ask 73-year-old restaurateur Frank Guido.

Jen Doll

At Frankies 457 Spuntino in Brooklyn, the real fun starts when the after-dinner drinks hit the table.

Andrew Knowlton

Silvio Frlic has worked at Brooklyn red sauce stalwart Bamonte’s for 41 years. Silvio Frlic has seen some things.

Hilary Cadigan

But how does it even make sense for them to offer this?

Sarah Jampel

Friday night at Camille’s, a Providence, Rhode Island, red sauce legend more than a century in the making.

Molly Birnbaum

As they say, “the worse the art in restaurants, the better the food.”

Sarah Cascone

(But it was never really about the pizza.)

Amanda Shapiro

Kelly Conaboy

How a Lutheran from central Illinois created a genre-defining Italian-American restaurant.

Priya Krishna

May this mini Trevi Fountain in Madison, Wisconsin, never change.

Madeleine Davies

How many ways can you possibly cook a pounded-thin piece of chicken breast? Well, as any self-respecting red sauce menu will tell you, the answer is…a lot.

Amiel Stanek

Have you ever eaten Italian food on top of photos of...Italian food?

Lauren Larson

For the owner of Nino’s, the hardest part of letting go is making sure things stay exactly the same.

Christiane Lauterbach

The oldest Italian restaurant in Augusta, Georgia, is a fifth-generation Greek family–owned red sauce joint called Luigi’s.

Virginia Willis

Mike Gotovac, a bartender at the legendary L.A. celebrity hangout Dan Tana’s, looks back on half a century in the biz.

Maggie Lange

When the legendary football coach first moved to Oklahoma, the only Italian food available was Chef Boyardee. Then he met chef Pasquale Benso.

Barry Switzer, as told to Greg Elwell

Yeah, I grew up in Brooklyn, the epicenter of Italian-American food. But it wasn’t until I moved down South that I learned to truly appreciate the stuff.

Brett Martin