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Cuisine

Italian Sunday dinners

Italian home cooking is regional before it is national — a Sunday table in Bologna and one in Palermo share a language and almost nothing else. What travels is the discipline: few ingredients per dish, bought well and left recognisable. The plans here lean on that. Pasta is a course rather than a side, the sauce is built to coat rather than to drown, and the vegetable dish is usually the one that tells you what month it is.

9 plans in the Sunday Gallery.

What Italian plans look like

Most common mains

  • chicken4
  • beef2
  • egg1
  • pork1
  • vegetarian1

How they're cooked

  • Pan-seared4
  • Roasted2
  • Baked1
  • Grilled1
  • Stewed1

The plans

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