Fresh Summer Tomato Sauce

Tomatoes must be the sweet, honest, sun-ripened-to-almost-bursting garden variety for this classic sauce. When you are lucky enough to get them, then the simplest sauce with just a few herbs does them the greatest justice.

This sauce is to be found all through central Italy in the warm summer months; it is usually made in the morning and allowed to ripen at room temperature all day in a covered bowl. It’s really a salad!