Spaghettini col Sugo di Erbe e Pomodoro Crudo

A Popular, nostalgic image of Italian cooking is that of a portly, grandmotherly woman stirring a simmering sauce for hours. Fortunately, it is. only a fantasy. Of the thousands of pasta sauces, only a few take more than 15 to 20 minutes. This sauce for maccheroncini doesn’t take even 1 minute.

The secret of its sprightly, fragrant flavor is that the herbs and tomatoes of which it is composed are virtually raw. They never see the inside of a saucepan but go directly into the