The best recipe you’ve never heard of is...lemon pesto! In this week’s installment, Chris Kimball makes a recipe we learned in Amalfi, Italy, where the trees are dripping with enormous, sweet lemons. There, lemon farmer Giovanna Aceto taught us how to use lemons to wake up virtually any dish. Her lemon pesto isn’t sour or acidic, our editorial director J.M. Hirsch wrote. Instead, it’s "a sauce that hints at bright citrusy sweetness, yet remains decidedly savory. The lemon accents without overwhe

Fennel pesto! This idea came to us from Milk Street Facebook community member Jennifer Heftler, and of course right in Milk Street’s reigning gardener Rosie Gill’s wheelhouse. This pesto is all about the fennel, which is to say, clear, bright flavors—no cheese needed. It also follows one of Rosie’s most fundamental lessons, which is to think of ingredients as adjectives, not nouns. By that, she means that you break down a recipe into its core components. Something hefty, something savory, someth