31.   The menu she puts together includes pasta with red sauce, a tossed salad, bread sticks, cherry cobbler and milk.

32.   The pasta with red sauce probably was delicious, but little was plenty.

33.   The popularity of Italian food, however, transcends trends, and our love for it has grown beyond bowls of noodles in red sauce.

34.   The Sesame Salmon is the most time-consuming as it involves cooking the salmon, sauteing mushrooms, preparing potato pancakes and making the red wine sauce in separate steps.

35.   Then the shrimp came, pink, succulent, so tender you could suck off their shells before dipping them in spicy red sauce.

36.   There are French pate, American meatloaf, Chinese dumplings and, of course, Italian meatballs in red sauce.

37.   They resemble that delicacy of central France, poached eggs in red wine sauce.

38.   They were nestled on an alp of shaved ice amid glass bowls of fiery red cocktail sauce.

39.   Top the baked slices with a ruby red raspberry sauce whipped up in a food processor with frozen unsweetened raspberries and a little powdered sugar.

40.   Using canned San Marzano tomatoes, we adapted our own marinara recipe into a vibrant red sauce perfect for bow-tie pasta.