For his second act, John Yardim decided to tone down the Turkish. His new East Setauket eatery, Mezze Mediterranean, has a Turkish soul, but a crowd-pleasing pan-Mediterranean surface. In 2023 ...

Scald them to make them crispy and golden (13) and move on to cooking the pasta in boiling salted water. Drain the mezze maniche into a pan (14), add the leek cream (15) and stir with the heat off ...

If you don't have tonnarelli pasta available, you can make cacio e pepe with substitutes like spaghetti, bucatini, and more.