Own your own kitchen with this A+ recipe

When cooking at home, there's sometimes nothing better than a big ol' communal dish cooking in the oven or on the stovetop, getting warm up and bubbly, permeating the house with its distinctive, alluring aroma. My column abbondanza taps into that sense of convivial joy channeled through the ethos of Italian-American cooking and abundance.

Other times, though, you might have a hankering for something a little more refined or sophisticated than, say, yet another enormous batch of chicken parm (this is a self-critique).