The Italian Pantry

Accomplished Italian cooks from every region will tell you the secret to why Italian food is so disarmingly delicious: the quality of the ingredients. Italy’s most famous dishes—pizza margherita, spaghetti alla puttanesca, bruschetta--are spectacular in their simplicity. Heat some garlic with the ripest Piemontese tomatoes to make a quick sauce, toss some Sicilian capers into your salad, or top some crostini with the tuna belly that flies off our shelves --these ingredients shine so brightly on their own that they require no gussying-up.