Thursday, July 19, 2007
L'ail est très bon!
A Creeder Reader sends us this:
"In Italy, a debate is raging among chefs and diners about eliminating a pungent staple of the Italian diet: garlic. ...
"The debate starts in the center of Rome at La Trattoria restaurant, one of the city's trendiest restaurants known for its innovative Sicilian cuisine. La Trattoria's chef, Filippo La Mantia, has shunned garlic as the basis of his dishes in favor of other natural ingredients such as citrus and other herbs.
"La Mantia says that garlic is a leftover from when Italians were poor and used it to flavor their meager victuals. He says the average standard of living is high enough today that people can do without it."
Italian cuisine sans garlic? Ain't that like Irish cuisine without taters?
Don't tell me that garlic's peasant food. I'll peasant kick your ass ...!
"In Italy, a debate is raging among chefs and diners about eliminating a pungent staple of the Italian diet: garlic. ...
"The debate starts in the center of Rome at La Trattoria restaurant, one of the city's trendiest restaurants known for its innovative Sicilian cuisine. La Trattoria's chef, Filippo La Mantia, has shunned garlic as the basis of his dishes in favor of other natural ingredients such as citrus and other herbs.
"La Mantia says that garlic is a leftover from when Italians were poor and used it to flavor their meager victuals. He says the average standard of living is high enough today that people can do without it."
Italian cuisine sans garlic? Ain't that like Irish cuisine without taters?
Don't tell me that garlic's peasant food. I'll peasant kick your ass ...!
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, July 19, 2007 
