John Ash says he thinks of
pasta as the "blank canvas of cooking" and he has the highest and mightiest possible title of a cookbook,
ever in Cooking One on One: Private Lessons in Simple, Contemporary Food From a Master Teacher.
Yet the recipe he offers on the wires today is essentially tuna noodle casserole, done beautifully (and simply). His sauce packs a whallop with both tuna (he suggests a higher-quality tuna than this Chicken of the Sea from my *ahem* collection) and anchovy fillets.








