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What’s on the menu tonight? Whether you’re feeling pasta, pizza, or risotto, we’ve got everything you need to make an authentically Italian meal for dinner. Italian chefs and home cooks alike know that the secret to great flavor is finding the best ingredients and letting them sing without much interference. The first step to cooking as they do? Stocking your pantry with artisan-made, locally-produced staples direct from Italy.

When it comes to pasta, you’ll notice a huge difference when you upgrade to Italian-made varieties. Our Italian pasta maker partners use bronze dies to shape and cut the pasta, giving it a subtle texture that’s substantial, never slippery, and allows the sauce to cling to every curve. They use minimally processed semolina flour, which is more flavorful and nutritious than the ultra-processed stuff used here in the U.S. The finished pasta is air-dried slowly, creating the perfect al dente texture.

Not just any rice will do when you’re making risotto. Specially bred Italian varieties like carnaroli and arborio have just the right starch level to create a creamy, never gluey dish that’s comforting and elegant at the same time. For pizza, the right flour is the key to an elastic, workable dough that will rise beautifully and not deflate in the oven. Our partner has been dedicated to flour in all its forms since 1914; the fourth-generation millers make the most brilliant specialty flours you’ll ever try. Whether you’re making focaccia or a batch of chocolate chip cookies, they’ll make it better.

And no Italian meal would be complete without signature flavor building blocks like perfectly sweet canned tomatoes, organically grown oregano, perfectly smooth olive oil, and zingy Calabrian chile paste. No matter what your family loves to eat, you’ll find the ingredients you need to cook it better here.