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Since I write about food for a living, it’s not really cool when I don’t like a common ingredient. Other people can have preferences for what they do and don’t like (as long as olives and pickles aren’t on the “no” list, I’m sorry), but I’m “supposed” to eat everything.

This is why I used to keep my aversion to sun-dried tomatoes mostly under wraps. I ate them when I had to; I chewed through the leathery, sad versions that I found on pizza and salads and wondered why people put up with this overrated ingredient.

And then I went to Rome last October, and wow. After accidentally ordering something with sun-dried tomatoes again (oops), I realized that whatever “sun-dried tomatoes” I had before were sad excuses for the real deal. Good sun-dried tomatoes can transform a meal from average to special, and that’s why they’re my weeknight meal obsession.

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