ziti

Growing up in New Jersey, baked ziti was his family’s oven-baked pasta of choice.

I adore the crispy, cheesy frico-adjacent bits that emerge in the corners of baked pasta like lasagna or baked ziti.

So I said yes, and they came over with the beautiful ziti and it was warm and lovely.

Pasta Bowl, for the uninitiated, is a local red-sauce institution — a shrine to baked ziti and tiramisu.

We’re talking spaghetti and meatballs, baked ziti, or gluten-free vegan lasagna.