Peperoni con Bagna Cauda (Italian Piedmontese Peppers with Bagna Cauda) Bagna cauda is a Piedmontese sauce of garlic, salted anchovy and olive oil held warm over a flame, and roasted sweet peppers are the vegetable it was made for. Almost everything else at a bagna cauda table is dipped raw. The peppers are cooked first, and that changes the balance: the sugars concentrate, the flesh turns silky, and the sauce stops being a dip and becomes a dressing. Five things matter and f