Funny seeing this, especially from an iberian perpective, because local culinary is mostly the same as theirs. With the slight difference we actually have the balls to spice our food.
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Spain and Portugal should be tier 1 or 2
Madrid’s food scene is amazing
Spanish and Greek food beats Italian. Heck Polish food is way underrated. Also American pizza is better.
American pizza made by Italian immigrants. ftfy
If you wanna be pedantic, Italian pasta is actually the knockoff of Chinese noodles.
Also, Greek food is fantastic!
Yes, it is, and, yes, it is!
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Fake pizza, sure, but doesn't imply it's bad. Plus ironically, you can find Italian style pizza in the US if you look for it.
That said, I'll still apologize for Dominos, Pizza Hut, et. al. for fast-foodizing the concept of pizza.
Domino's looks like pizza but it's terrible. I'd rather never eat pizza again if Domino's were the only option.
Bruh, Giovanni isn't getting his ass outta bed at 1am to whip me up the drunkenness abolishing disaster that is a late night Domino's order, including all the extras of course I don't just want a pizza I want lava cake and bread sticks and cheesy bread and maybe a pasta bread bowl. I'll take a few bites of everything and pass out on the couch to wake up in the morning pleasantly surprised that drunk me was thoughtful enough to order us pizza for breakfast.
Well most of 'traditional' Italien food is actually from the US and had been invented by Italien immigrants.
Yeah, Italian chef friend of mine once said that you use garlic, or onions, rarely both, in authentic italian food. Unless you are from one of the many places where they always use both.
A lot of people don't realize that Italy is a relatively young country comprising multiple distinct regions and culinary histories.
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Pre 1600s: Y'all a wanta some Rotting fish juice?
Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.
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As an American who just had some glorious fake pizza last night, I thought I hated pasta until I had good Italian, and then I realized I just hate Americanized Italian food. Except pizza, we do it better.
Pasta still isn't my favorite, but I'll take it if it's authentic. My SO makes some great aglio e olio and carbonara, often with shrimp.
As someone who makes pizza from scratch every week, I love all forms of pizza from fast food US pizza (like Dominos), to "drunk" US pizza dipped in ranch, to NY pizza, to Chicago deep dish, but what I make at home is always simple Italian pizza with just a few ingredients: dough, a sauce made from San Marzano tomatoes specifically canned for pizza with some salt, fresh oregano, mozzarella cheese, and olive oil. Sometimes I add a ton of arugula on top too. What's nice is that pizza is also kinda healthy actually.
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I mean, Italian food really is brilliant, they really just over time took all the best things they found and just made great food with it and left out everything else.
It's sort of crazy to think about how delicious a recipe with four ingredients can be until you realize they're four of the most delicious things on the planet.
It's like Japanese food: protein and or produce of your choice, soy sauce, sake, mirin, dashi. Maybe miso. Combine ingredients to your preference.
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Let's not give extra airtime to that cunt.
Wow... I had no idea. Thanks!
How can you put Spain on the same level as Great Britain? Damn Italians don't know how to make anything other than sauce with tomatoes and they think they know how to cook.
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The Netherlands is probably an "overcooked pasta" enclave than. When I was a kid, I was sure Al Dente was Italian for Deathly Toxin.