Here’s a short video with Mario Batali talking about saucing a pasta.
Short snippets:
* “What you want to eat when you eat a bowl of pasta … is pasta.”
* “The way that they refer to their sauce in Italy is condimento—condiment—and when you think about a hot dog or hamburger, the condiment is something that kind of greases it up, but it never overtakes the main event of the hot dog or the hamburger.”
* “Americans overdress their pasta 99.9 percent of the time. It should never be a bowl of soup. It should be noodles, with a little stuff.”
