Recipes Spaghetti with Fresh Soppressata 5.0 (1,036) 2 Reviews One of the most popular cured meats on restaurant charcuterie boards, soppressata is a hard salami from southern Italy. Andrew Carmellini's family grinds their own meat to make it, but much easier is buying Italian sausages and removing their casings. To give the fresh soppressata extra spice, use hot sausages instead of sweet ones, or increase the amount of crushed red pepper. Slideshow: Great Italian Recipes By Andrew Carmellini Andrew Carmellini F&W Star Chef » See All F&W Chef Superstars Though he’s won tremendous acclaim for his modern Italian dishes at New York’s Locanda Verde, F&W Best New Chef 2000 Andrew Carmellini is fascinated by traditional American cooking, which he explores at his restaurant The Dutch and in his book American Flavor. Here, his number one entertaining tip, his favorite cookbook and the basic technic everyone should master. What’s one great entertaining tip? Pour heavily. What’s your most requested recipe, the one dish you’re most known for? The rabbit potpie at The Dutch, the sheep’s milk ricotta at Locanda Verde. What’s your favorite cookbook of all time?La Méthode, by Jacques Pépin, the first cookbook I was ever given. What’s the best cheap cooking gadget?Vegetable peeler. One technique everyone should know? How to use heat and fire correctly is elemental.2000 Best New Chef Bio Why Because while working in the French style of the restaurant's owner, Daniel Boulud, he has forged a culinary identity all his own. Born Cleveland, 1971. Education Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, NY. Experience Le Cirque 2000 and Lespinasse in New York City. First thing prepared Tossed salad with vegetables from his family's backyard garden. How he got into cooking "I was a very hyperactive kid. My mom says cooking was the only thing that would calm me down." What he'd be if he weren't a chef A guitarist in a rock band. "I've been playing guitar since I was six." A request he said no to Grilled skate. "It's difficult to grill skate." Strangest food eaten Baby loofah (a gourd whose fibrous skeleton is commonly used as a bath sponge) with mushrooms and preserved sea scallops at Ping's Seafood in Queens, in New York City. Favorite food books "I have a lot of out-of-print reference books on plants, flowers and vegetables." How he gets to work Bicycle. Least favorite food Sea urchin. A frustration The sudden rise in food allergies. "I wonder why that is?" Favorite wine "The monster reds. I had a 1971 Ridge Montebello recently that was so good it was almost a meal." Won Best New Chef at: Café Boulud, New York City Food & Wine's Editorial Guidelines Updated on February 14, 2018 Print Rate It Share Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: © Tina Rupp Active Time: 30 mins Total Time: 2 hrs Yield: 6 Ingredients 4 garlic cloves 1 1/3 cups dry white wine 1 pound sweet Italian sausage, casings removed 1 teaspoon ground fennel 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1 small onion, finely chopped 1 small carrot, finely chopped 1 celery rib, finely chopped One 28-ounce can plus one 14-ounce can whole peeled tomatoes, crushed, with their liquid Salt 1 pound spaghetti 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese 1/4 cup chopped basil 1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley Directions In a blender, puree the garlic with 1/3 cup of the white wine. Transfer the mixture to a medium bowl. Add the sausage, fennel, black pepper and crushed red pepper and knead lightly to combine. Cover with plastic and refrigerate overnight. In a large, deep skillet, heat the olive oil. Add the sausage mixture and cook over high heat, breaking up lumps with a spoon, until lightly browned, 6 to 7 minutes. Add the onion, carrot and celery and cook over high heat, stirring frequently, until softened, about 4 minutes. Add the remaining 1 cup of wine and cook, scraping up any browned bits, until nearly evaporated, about 5 minutes. Add the crushed tomatoes and their juices to the pan and season lightly with salt. Simmer over low heat, stirring occasionally, until thickened and reduced to about 5 cups, about 40 minutes. In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook the spaghetti until just al dente. Drain, reserving 1/2 cup of the cooking water. Add the pasta to the sauce and toss with the grated cheese, basil and parsley. Add the reserved cooking water and toss the pasta over moderately high heat, until nicely coated, about 2 minutes. Serve immediately. Make Ahead The pasta sauce can be refrigerated for up to 4 days. Suggested Pairing Fruity, peppery Sangiovese. Rate it Print