Posted on 06/13/2018 3:51:38 PM PDT by Albion Wilde
I like to joke that my dad is the most Italian man alive, but that would be inaccurate — he’s just a regular amount of Italian. But it wasn’t until later in my life that I realized that my dad wasn’t uniquely a pain in the ass about food, and that most Italians are insanely tightly wound about their cuisine.
Last year, I came across a Twitter account that exemplifies that attitude, and it quickly became one of my favorite places online. Italians Mad at Food (@italiancomments) is a treasure trove of, well, Italians mad at food. The creator, who is not Italian, combs the comments on Tasty and other viral recipe purveyors on Facebook to bring you the best (read: maddest) Italians the internet has to offer. They’re furious that American recipe sites have taken their beloved national dishes and spit out deranged remixes; one-pot pasta is particularly enraging for them, as well as anything cooked in a cream or milk-based sauce, but there are no limits to their anger. Crucially, they’re all very dramatic...
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I recommend Anastasi Seafood in the Italian Market, Philly. If you want to make sure, call ahead and ask if they can prepare it for you. They are a 4th-generation family in that Market.
There’s nothing like generalizing.
Wow! I love your pizza oven! Stupendo!! Wish we lived closer... I’d bring the cannolis.
Ew, no; not in every house. I didn't know what good home cooking was until I left home and made friends elsewhere.
You made my week brother.
You may enjoy this video:
There are pockets in this nation
she’s adorable!
If you mean on a pizza, Italians don't eat cheese with fish. That's another peeve I share.
lol! And I would let you :-)
I am growing umbrian peas for the first time. I just happened to buy some seeds and had to pay shipping so I figured I might as well get my moneys worth. So I got some varieties I never heard of before. These are supposed to be an ancient Italian pea. Never grew these things before and have no clue what to do with them. The flowers are absolutely gorgeous, two or three shades of purple. You can dry the peas and then grind them into some sort of polenta type thing. Or make a soup with them. I guess I’ll have to experiment.
Absolutely not!! That is the pizza I ate on my many trips to Napoli, where pizza was invented.
Zambuca and Lemon Cake sucks too.... ;)
Oh, I forgot to add if anyone has a recipe for me to deal with these umbrian peas let me know. I don’t have any yet, but the plants are doing well.
Italy was poor to the point of starving during WW2, so of course the pizza was meager then.
The fresh mozzarella on the typical Neapolitan pizza is a few sqares barely 1" x 1". The emphasis is on the flavor of the thin crust dusted with wood ashes, the exquisite tomatoes grown in their lava-rich soil, and their excellent olive oil. I've been going to Napoli since 1966.
God bless you!
When-a moon hitta you eye like a big pizza pie......
I ordered a sandwich with pruh-ZHUUT.
There was a woman sitting there wearing an F.B.I. T-Shirt (Full Blooded Italian) who commented on my pronunciation.
It's pronounced pruh-zhut-oh she said.
I asked her where she was from and she said Chicago.
Only much later did I find out that the Italian-American dialect I learned from my parents from Massachusetts was different than the midwestern Italian dialect.
So when it comes to pizza, maybe we should agree with the French and say: Vive la difference!
This is so cute -- a bunch of guys arguing over a card game, Scopa. You can hear the "schh" sound a lot in the Napolitano dialect:
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