Pasta Pomodoro

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    as a starter
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Barbuto Cookbook: California-Italian Cooking from the Beloved West Village Restaurant

By Jonathan Waxman

Published 2020

  • About

Luis Ruiz is one of my longtime line cooks; he is a master at producing ragù. I often think he instinctively knows how, because he has a great palate and perhaps his family taught everyone the basics of good Puebla, Mexico, cookery. We have evolved this recipe, and it keeps evolving. I am not the biggest fan of tomato concentrate (nor ketchup, for the same reason). It may have been invented by Escoffier, but I find it over-cooked, over-reduced, and it doesn