Comfort Food Recipe

All-In Spaghetti Sauce

Just go wild and get creative with it

I’m not read yet to #ResistAgain. I’m sure I’ll get there — I already feel the stirrings that drive my activist creative voice. For now, I just feel like sharing comfort — as in comfort food. You know what I mean… sharing a meal and/or a dessert, maybe a cup of something warm together is how we comfort ourselves and each other.

Perhaps the most ubiquitous comfort foods are Italian dishes. “Ubiquitous” — I’m gonna use that word several more times in this piece; but, in this case, it’s a good thing. Italian-inspired pasta dishes have long been the base of hearty comfort foods like pizza, spaghetti, calzones, lasagna and more.

These foods welcome you like a big gastronomic hug. The Italian red-sauce “gravy” is “spaghetti sauce” to the world. It doesn’t matter what dish it’s in — from pizza to cheese sticks to penne to spaghetti to dozens upon dozens of variations — red-sauce is “spaghetti sauce” to the world.

What we call “spaghetti sauce” has its roots in 17th Century Italy. It first appeared in a cookbook published in 1692 written by the Italian chef, Antonio Latini. Over 300 years later, this centuries old cultural appropriation has become a ubiquitous staple of home cooking across cultures.

All around the world, we just love spaghetti red-sauce in all its varieties so damn much. We all have our own take on the original. It’s so ubiquitous in the…