This vodka sauce is a powerful tomato flavor softened with the silky richness of heavy cream.
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How to make PENNE ALLA VODKA like an Italian
A staple of Italian-American red sauce restaurants in the United States since the 1980s vodka sauce has a history as murky as its dense creamy orange color. Did a famous Italian actor invent it? A Bologna restaurant in the 1970s? A Columbia University student? Or did it hail from Russia? Meh as much as I love delving into the history of famous dishes I can live with this mystery remaining unsolved.
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What’s cool about vodka sauce isn’t who came up with it it’s how good it is. And yes the vodka really matters here. We know this because we’ve done the tests before. A few years ago Kenji delved into the question of whether vodka sauce really needs vodka and the answer was an unequivocal yes (although it’s delicious without it too).
