Quite frankly I find it better then the Italians who insist that there food is one of the first and there word is law about so much nonsense but a lot of it couldn’t exist without the tomato which is from the “new world”.
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And they didn’t even really start cooking with it until the 18th and 19th centuries!
sep 1, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
“just like nonna used to make it” kid, it’s time you knew about your grandmother
sep 1, 2025, 12:08 pm • 19 0 • view
"Kid, the secret sauce is just heinz chili sauce and ragu, your 'nonna' got it from a recipe card she found in the spice rack at Fazios."
sep 1, 2025, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
I would have deleted and corrected instantly the two there instead of their but Bluesky doesn’t have an edit button and the amount of traditional Italian dishes that actually combine fish and cheese might be shocking to people who insist it’s never done!
sep 1, 2025, 12:14 pm • 5 0 • view
Kind of amazing how many dishes we think of as traditional Italian were 1) invented in, like, 1926, 2) originally a city/street food, not developed by nonnas serving huge families at long wooden tables under the grapevine, and/or 3) developed in the US by Italian-Americans and brought back to Italy
sep 1, 2025, 12:47 pm • 22 0 • view
Ciabatta is delightful and Italian but it was also legit developed in the 80s. It’s my entire point Italian food has and should evolve, acknowledge and celebrate it.
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Yes I was agreeing with you
sep 1, 2025, 1:08 pm • 4 0 • view
I was agreeing on your agreeing I just wanted an example after Mussolini for the youngsters!
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Right, and the connections between their fantasies of an ancient, inviolable cuisine tied to their soil and the far right’s ideas about an ancient, inviolable Italian nation aren’t hard to figure out.
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Carbonara was developed using bacon in the ration kits of GIs
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She’s 600 years old?
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Nana is an Eldritch God.
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