This summer, I boarded a plane for Naples to learn all about one of Italy’s most famous products: the DOP San Marzano tomato. Even though I have been cooking with what are arguably the most ...

This summer, I boarded a plane for Naples to learn all about one of Italy’s most famous products: the DOP San Marzano tomato. Even though I have been cooking with what are arguably the most ...

Stacked throughout the kitchen, on shelves and under counters, are little pyramids of canned San Marzano tomatoes. Everywhere you look back-of-house, there's a can or six. While initially they are ...

Thanks to Vesuvius, it sits in an area of southern Italy blessed with rich volcanic soil that arguably makes for the best tomato in the world -- the Pomodoro di San Marzano, which derives its name ...

Canned tomatoes are one of the undisputed MVP's of the kitchen pantry, and San Marzano tomatoes are especially coveted due to their sweetness, relatively low acidity, and robust tomatoey flavor.