rigatoni

As for Pheifer’s favorite Ina recipe to make, he says it’s her rigatoni with sausage and fennel from “Cooking with Jeffrey.”

You can use any pasta shape for the recipe, but I find rigatoni to be ideal since its hollow tubes really soak up the sauce.

At first, Geary — who is an avowed food lover — says he found himself impatient as he watched his piping-hot rigatoni grow cold while the family followed the instructions to appreciate the smells and the colors of the dishes before digging in.

January was the Miami debut of Greenwich Village’s Carbone, famed equally for spicy rigatoni and the impossibility of getting a reservation.

Make a thin nut gravy, simmer in it the stalks of celery, bruised and tied together (for convenience), and the cooked rigatoni.