“Pesto”

“[Pesto] is a famous sauce rarely met outside of Genoa….”

—Ada Boni, Italian Regional Cooking (1969)

by Colman Andrews

“According to the bylaws of the Confraternità del Pesto — an organization founded in Genoa in 1992 to foster the appreciation (and safeguard the integrity) of this celebrated but often misinterpreted green sauce — pesto is a “typical and ancient Ligurian condiment…synonymous with ‘Genoese-ness’ for all the Ligurians scattered around the world, who find in it the nostalgic memory of their land”