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- hans_glib14
- ewww :Dsted
- HeheheheApeRobot
- lolmoldero
- +100monospaced
- LOLzarkonite
- italian food before french is how it goes.neverscared
- @neverscared: https://mk0brilliant…zarkonite
- @zarkonite That's great, but I just want to throw a wrench in the gears. IIRC tomatoes were introduced to Europe via conquistadors returning from the Americas.garbage
- Then it took Italians a couple hundred years to start to use them correctly.garbage
- @zarkonite LOLKrassy
- Italians weren't the conquistadors. they were the cooks. They did the same with potatoes and gnocchi.hotroddy
- Everything related to culinary arts originated in France.
It stays.ideaist - @garbage most staples actually originated from south america, I have no idea how people ate in europe before they found america! No wonder they had wars overzarkonite
- salt... no tomatoes, potatoes, spices, cacao, corn, beans, peppers, etc.zarkonite
- @hotroddy I know, I was saying the Spanish introduced them to Europe from the Americas, and the Italians were slow to incorporate them into their cooking.garbage
- @zark, and I believe every single pepper, hot or otherwise, came from S. America. Meaning all spicy food didn't exist anywhere on the planet without them.monospaced
- While I would hop on any opportunity to eat great French food, I usually have no problem passing on Italian in general. It's just not that inpsiring.monospaced
- I mean, finding unique names for each of the five billions shapes of pasta they insist on differentiating might be impressive to some people ... meh,monospaced
- Beyond their staples, everything else just seems to be done better by others.monospaced
- @mono Some noodles you can toss, some you gotta have. Cacio e pepe bucatini, *muah*.garbage
- Oh yes. That one. Butter and a crack of pepper. Let’s charge $15monospaced
- French Food = https://media1.giphy…utopian
- i´am in the- safe to eat zone-. puhh made it , i guess.neverscared
- @mono $15 cacio e pepe? Butter and a crack of pepper? You're at the wrong place, and that's not cacio e pepe.garbage
- The right place is your kitchen. Grated Pecorino, a wall of pepper, olive oil, a tiny dab of butter and pasta water for the sauce.garbage
- Trust me. I know what it is. Believe it or not I’m a pretty big foodie living in nyc for over a decade after San Francisco for a decade. I’ve had the best of itmonospaced
- It tastes good sure. But it’s not fine cuisine and that’s what We are talking about here.monospaced
- Ha, I wasn't saying you didn't know. Just had to defend a fave. Like ratatouille, if you do it right it is fine cuisine.garbage
- Ratatouille is a peasant dish, originally made from leftovers. A fine cuisine take on it is certainly nice butdyspl
- The best is still some overdue veggies slow cooked and eaten with a « œuf au plat » along with some bread :)dyspl
- LolGnash
- @dyspl Duh, that's kind of my point. There's something ineffable about taking something simple and making it great.garbage
- I think there was a movie about it, but the name escapes me atm.garbage
- Fine cuisine implies using fancy ingredients and or techniques, which is the opposite of stewing 5overdue pièce la of veggies :)dyspl
- And by doing so, you remove the dish from its essence IMO and somehow miss what makes it great. Kind of like having a burger with Kobe beef and truffles.dyspl
- and let me guess; the noodle soup secret ingredient is that there isn't one?dyspl
- Fine cuisine these days is more "$$$$" Yelp rating and an IG status pic, not actual good cooking.garbage
- Also did you have a stroke?garbage