We recently fried 20 pounds of zucchini to serve Spaghetti alla Nerano for a private dinner party in Atwater Village, Los Angeles, and wrote this recipe so our guests could recreate the dish at home. Check out an excerpt from the Substack article below.

In the town of Nerano on the Sorrento peninsula in Campania sits Maria Grazia, a restaurant that has been proudly repping Spaghetti alla Nerano as their culinary brainchild since the 1950’s. Now, you can find the dish in restaurants all over Nerano from Taverna del Capitano to Lo Scoglio da Tommaso (the restaurant Tucci shot into the foodie zeitgeist with his pilot episode of Searching for Italy). In each variation, Spaghetti alla Nerano takes zucchini and few other ingredients and transforms them into something far more delish than the sum of its parts. The zucchini are cut into thin rounds and fried, and then combined with basil, pecorino, butter, and a touch of garlic for a truly hedonistic experience.