Authentic Italian, commonplaces and bad imitations! Don’t believe it’s all real Italian! Maybe they’re just cheating you!!!!
When I travel, anywhere in the world I find in supermarkets and delis panettone and pandoro sold all year long, as if they were a typical Italian… Read more “Commonplace: panettone and pandoro”
Yes! I mean what I wrote here above. Abroad, people call pizza every bloody piece of bread garnished with something. It’s not possible. Pizza is pizza. Pizza… Read more “STOP CALLING PIZZA ANYTHING YOU SEE!”
Gnocchi, as I said about pasta, are a main dish and they are not a side. If you find, for instance, steak with gnocchi, get suspicious! They… Read more “Commonplaces: GNOCCHI, another tortured dish!”
I was surfing the web and, with great pleasure, I found this recipe posted by the NYT which finally corresponded to the Italian one. I was almost… Read more “The recipe is fine, but please, have a look at the comments!”
Another person who thinks her husband’s cooking a fantastic Italian tomato sauce, I guess just because he’s using tomatoes! Or because he’s using it on pasta… Who… Read more “You call it the best Italian tomato sauce??? Don’t say it’s Italian!”
Carbonara is one of the most mistreated recipes ever! Really! It really makes us Italians suffer a lot! First of all, here is a short list of… Read more “CARBONARA: commonplaces and big mistakes”
Hello to you all! Today’s post comes right from you! I’m very glad to notice you take part to My Little Italy’s life! One of you signaled… Read more “From a reader’s alert! Iconic Italian dishes…”
My friends, I was going through some online newspapers and I noticed this page with two so-called Italian recipes: https://www.today.com/food/giada-de-laurentiis-easy-one-pan-chicken-lasagna-recipes-t147298 Considering that Giada De Laurentiis is an… Read more “Why???? Why calling it Italian?”
My dear dear friends, garlic bread can be very nice but….it’s not Italian. We don’t have it! In Italy you won’t find it. I noticed it’s very often offered together… Read more “Commonplace: GARLIC BREAD”
I was watching Food Network. There was Guy visiting a restaurant where the owner was proposing the Italian recipes of his Italian granma. When I saw what… Read more “An Italian nightmare in Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives”
