#red-sauce

#red-sauce

Adding a dash of soy sauce to jarred tomato sauce enhances the umami flavor and adds salty caramel notes, transforming a quick meal into something special.

Red was the sauce, dark was the night, and empty the room at Nino's Restaurant, a red-sauce stalwart on the Upper East Side. Looking over the sea of unblemished white tablecloths was Shemsi "Nino" Selimaj, the dapper Albanian owner who opened the restaurant in 1991.