● SUNDAY, MAY 31

The 8 Best Tools for Making Fresh Pasta at Home

You do not need a restaurant kitchen. You need eight tools, most of which cost less than a dinner out. This is the equipment that will actually change your pasta.

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This week, on the table

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It’s Not Spaghetti Bolognese. It Has Never Been Spaghetti Bolognese.

3 MIN

MYTHS

12 Things Americans Believe About Italian Food That Italians Have Never Heard Of

3 MIN

PASTA

Pasta al Pomodoro Has Four Ingredients. You’ve Been Adding Too Many

3 MIN

FEATURED · LONG READ

Cacio e pepe, three ingredients, one hundred ways to ruin it.

Pasta water, pecorino, black pepper. The dish is hard not because it has many steps — it has almost none — but because emulsion is unforgiving.

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Still in our heads

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PASTA · ROME

Carbonara: stop adding cream. Seriously, stop.

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MYTH-BUSTING · #001

Carbonara has never had cream. And it never will.

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PASTA · LAZIO

Amatriciana, and the village that swears it’s theirs.

3 MIN

DESSERTS · VENETO

Tiramisù has zero ingredients you can’t pronounce.

3 MIN

PASTA · LAZIO

Pasta alla gricia: the carbonara that existed before eggs.

3 MIN

MYTH-BUSTING · #002

Pesto is never heated. Not even for a second.

3 MIN