Based on recipes from Nick Stellino's Passione: Pasta, Pizza, and Panini, each episode features simple and elegant Mediterranean-style cuisine. Nick Stellino incorporates his gift for storytelling with distinctive cooking from his native Sicily. Menu suggestions range from comfort foods and fun family fare such as fried calzones to romantic dinners for two featuring lasagnette with curried shrimp and scallops and pappardelle with rustic lamb sauce. Stellino enlivens traditional pizzas with unusual ingredients, makes pasta from scratch and turns easy-to-make sandwiches and breads into works of art.