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Italian Pantry Essentials for Easy Home Cooking For this issue, Miami Living brings you a selection of Italian pantry essentials that make it easy to prepare flavorful, satisfying meals at home. We love traditional pasta, Italian tomatoes and extra virgin olive oil. These simple yet classic ingredients can serve as the foundation for everything from quick weeknight dinners to timeless Italian dishes. A great place to start is with quality pasta. De Cecco (dececco.com) has been making pasta in Abruzzo since 1886, although the family’s milling history dates back to 1831. The company is particularly known for its traditional bronze-die extrusion, which gives the pasta a slightly rough surface that helps sauces cling to it. De Cecco also uses slow, low-temperature drying, a method that preserves the pasta’s texture and flavor. From a nutritional standpoint, traditional durum-wheat pasta is primarily a source of carbohydrates, providing energy while also contributing protein. De Cecco’s whole-wheat varieties offer additional fiber and minerals, making them another option for people looking to increase whole grains in their diet. Pasta is also remarkably versatile: bronze-cut varieties work particularly well with tomato sauces, meat sauces, vegetables and baked dishes because their textured surface holds onto the sauce. Tomatoes provide another essential building block for Italian cooking. Mutti (mutti.com) was founded in Parma in 1899 by brothers Marcellino and Callisto Mutti and has spent more than a century specializing in Italian tomato products. The company became an early innovator in tomato processing and introduced its distinctive tomato-concentrate tube in 1951.