In honor of Stanley Tucci’s television travel series Searching for Italy, we’ve created four pasta dishes for TABLE readers. This week we bring you Stanley Tucci Inspired Pasta alla Norma. This dish incorporates lightly fried eggplant, which adds a wonderful texture to the rigatoni pasta dressed in a very simple red sauce. We recommend a Cerasuolo di Vittoria, a dry Sicilian red, or a fruit-forward Etna Rosso to accompany this Stanley Tucci Inspired Pasta alla Norma recipe.

Check Out Our Other Stanley Tucci Inspired Recipes:

Spaghetti alla Nerano
Bucatini all’Amatriciana
Penne all’ Arrabbiata
Stanley Tucci’s Martini

Recipe and Story by Gabe Gomez
Prop Styling by Keith Recker
Food Styling by Veda Sankaran
Photography by Dave Bryce
Fabric by @foundandforagedfibres
Wine Pairing by Adam Knoerzer

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