There should be no surprises inside a can or tube of tomato paste. It should be thick, red and pack a wallop of fresh-cooked tomato flavor. Whether it costs 40 cents or 4 bucks, it should deliver ...

Nice trick, huh? Anchovy paste comes in a toothpaste-like tube that you’ll find next to the tubes of tomato paste at the grocery store. And it’s exactly what it sounds like: anchovies ...

Which is why I love tube food. No, I don’t mean whole meals blended into slurries. I mean tomato paste in a tube that looks more like something you’d find at Home Depot than Brooklyn Kitchen.