Tapioca balls come with a piquant sauce and pork crackling comes sous-vide.

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Ammogghiu, another caper-laden classic, is a piquant tomato-based sauce best served with a thick steak and lots of garlic bread to sop up the juices.

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When the moment of truth arrived, it was delectable, a perfectly al dente, subtly flavored pasta (with mussels and squid, it turned out) dressed, not drowned, in a piquant, bottarga-laced tomato sauce.

FORBES: Editor's Note

He was making pizza with homemade dough for the young children of his second family, and his topping was a loose, watery, fresh tomato sauce, laced with anchovies and black olives, so piquant and delicious you could eat it by the spoonful and forgo the crust altogether.

NEWYORKER: Hanwell Senior