Sauces Available At DiFara!

Posted by Adam Kuban, January 7, 2004 at 9:05 PM

A friend's fiancé is in town on vacation this week. He lives abroad at the moment, and we decided he needed a good taste of home before returning to Europe. A trip to DiFara was arranged.

What we had: just a simple plain pie. But that's not important.

Here's what is: We noticed a woman waiting on her square pie at the counter. In front of her, two pint-size containers of sauce!

Turns out you can buy sauce there—either the "uncooked," as the woman was calling it or the "cooked."

The uncooked (though I suspect it spends some time simmering on the stove) is the same stuff proprietor Dominick Demarco uses on his round pies. The "cooked," is what goes into pasta dishes and (we're guessing) the heroes. We heard Dom's daughter Maggie telling the sauce buyer that the pasta version "is cooked for hours and hours."

I bought a container of the pizza sauce, intending to use it on my own homemade pies, not that they'll come anywhere near Dom's.

Both versions are $6 a pint. Whether you can duplicate Mr. Demarco's results at home is doubtful.

On a side note, regular patrons may have noticed that gone are the bullhorns that used to hang above the large black-and-white photo (above). I was told that they fell and broke.

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