Tagliatelle with Mum’s Tomato Sauce

Hand-cut tagliatelle made with semola and whole eggs, served with the slow-cooked tomato sauce that is the beating heart of this book. I could not have started this book with anything else. This dish is where it all begins: my love of cooking, my sense of belonging, my first memories of family gathered around the table. The sauce, slow-cooked with care, is the same one I described in the opening pages: our end-of-summer ritual, bottling the ripe tomatoes to last through winter. And the past