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Ragù Napoletano: A Real Neapolitan Sunday Sauce
A slow Sunday ragù, tested over a stack of Sundays, with the substitution that actually held up.
Cook the world from home.
The world’s food, cooked and tested in one kitchen.
I’m Laura. I cook dishes from Naples to northern Thailand — really cook them, more than once, until they work — from my kitchen here in Colombia. The recipes are what I make and photograph myself; the stories are what I’ve learned about where these dishes come from. I haven’t been everywhere they’re from, and I won’t pretend I have.
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How I make what you read
I use writing tools, including AI, to help with first drafts and research — the way a kitchen uses a food processor. But a tool doesn’t get the byline, and a tool can’t taste anything. Every recipe here is one I’ve actually cooked, usually several times, and the photos are of the food I made. When I write about where a dish comes from, it’s researched honestly — and if I haven’t been somewhere, I say so. If I haven’t done it myself, it isn’t here.