Ages ago, after the movie “Big Night” was released, a friend served a timpano at a dinner party. It was an oversize torte made out of a giant homemade sheet of pasta meticulously rolled thin, just as ...

4 to 5 quarts of your favorite pasta sauce, meat or marinara, or 2 recipes Tucci Family Ragu (see separate recipe) 1 pound Genoa salami, cut into ¼- by-½-inch cubes, or slices cut into ½-inch pieces 1 ...

Many of us have thrown off that comforting blanket of tradition and familiarity to ask the big question: How did turkey—a meat that is easily dried out and often described as “flavorless”—become the ...

Ages ago, after the movie “Big Night” was released, a friend served a timpano at a dinner party. It was an oversize torte made out of a giant homemade sheet of pasta meticulously rolled thin, just as ...

Nana never made this dish. There is no family recipe for Timpano that has passed down through generations of Parrellas. But when it comes to inspiring nostalgia for the cooking of my grandmother, ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth and final part of a four-part series of making timpano, the centerpiece dish from the 1996 film “Big Night.” Inspired by the 1996 film “Big Night,” my boyfriend and I ...

Ages ago, after the movie “Big Night” was released, a friend served a timpano at a dinner party. It was an oversize torte made out of a giant homemade sheet of pasta meticulously rolled thin, just as ...

It’s a laborious process which consists of a drum-shaped pan lined with sheets of pasta and filled with various meats, hard-boiled eggs, red sauce, and macaroni. Everything is done by hand. In the ...

Ages ago, after the movie “Big Night” was released, a friend served a timpano at a dinner party. It was an oversized torte made out of a giant homemade sheet of pasta meticulously rolled thin, just as ...