Maybe thats why I dont care for Italian that much, too much oasta and sauce. not enough veggie dishes.
Fennel eaten raw like an apple at the end of a meal is lovely. No cooking involved. That's my top tip for the day...
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I have been looking through these threads and I see references to Mexican and Thai in addition to British. My family loves Italian, we started with spaghetti and meatballs, went to lasagne, baked ziti and on to others. I expect most people eat pizza, but have you made your own in the Italian style.
I do like Italian food, but what you have listed is American food!
You are quite right although most people here would call those dishes, "Italian". There are very few pure ethnic foods around, they are pretty well all modified to American taste to sell to the most people. Those were what we started with, except I had Spaghetti Bolognes in the espresso bars when they opened in London. There is so much variation in regional dishes within Italy that one person's authentic dish is another's pseudo. Much as I would like to be a purist, (I do tend to be pedantic) it is too much trouble and I do enjoy those dishes.
So let me rephrase: Do you like American style Italian cooking?
Some italian .some french mostly british bepending on what it is and who is cooking it .
not keen on chinese and indian , tai and creek ,accasionally
I have heard of Mama Maria's but never been there. I went once to Pat's for a cheese steak but wasn't that impressed cos he uses cheese whiz, other than that, trips to Walts King of Crabs for mussels marinara and crabs.
Jim's steaks is so much better! There's one in Springfield too, but I'm sure you know that. I personally like the whiz, but usually get the american cheese, or provelone
Until you've had a pizza on the clifftop restaurants of Sorrento you've not had a pizza at all. The doughy crap they serve up here and in Britain is nothing like a traditional pizza.
I'm not a food snob by any means, I don't know a merlot from a pinot noir, I ask for steak tartar to be cooked well done; but Italian is the only type of food that I can only eat if its done properly.
I've been lucky enough on business trips to have eaten in the best resaurants in Florence, Bologna and Imola and they were out of this world. Fresh fish, smoked hams, delicately cooked vegtables, all of them simply but excellently served. Restaurants here are a million miles from the real thing.
So let me rephrase: Do you like American style Italian cooking?
It's not something I would go to a restaurant for - way too ordinary.
Until you've had a pizza on the clifftop restaurants of Sorrento you've not had a pizza at all. The doughy crap they serve up here and in Britain is nothing like a traditional pizza.
Pizza is different wherever you have it. It doesn't really mean that one place is necessarily better than another. Sometimes you are in the mood for 'doughy crap'.
My favourite pizza is French pizza.
Quite like Italian food, although there are no authentic Italian restaurants here in Redneckville, so I can't indulge as often as I'd like. roll Love Indian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Korean foods...and, of course, British. razz Come to think of it...there aren't many foods I don't like....except grits, which are disgusting, IMO. neutral
Some italian .some french mostly british bepending on what it is and who is cooking it .
not keen on chinese and indian , tai and creek ,accasionally
Sorry....what is tai and creek?
What are grits? Just the name sounds off putting.
I tink
tai=Thai
creek=Greek
Grits =creamed ground corn as a cereal.