“Their pasta and/or pizza sauce is basically olive oil with garlic and a few chopped tomatoes and/or other vegetables thrown in, sautéed rapidly and very fresh. It’s delicious and less caloric, by the way, than the thick, cheese-laden American pasta and pizza sauces.”
I second this motion. Had the best simple fresh pizza margherita I’ve ever eaten in a resort town on the Adriatic in Italy years ago.