Get to Know a Serious Eater.

pastalover23's Profile

Website:

Location:

About:

Favorite foods:

Last bite on earth:

The Ten Most Recent Comments By pastalover23

From Serious Eats

Mario Unclogged: How to Sauce Pasta

This video is a perfect example of over-exaggeration by an over-zealous, tempermental chef that has obviously been out of the American culinary habits loop. Perhaps, he feels the 0.1% who don't over sauce their pastas are the ones who visit his establishments? Nevertheless, the pompous critique of Italians on the use of "condiments" is and always will be considered arrogant. Wasn't it the Chinese that invented pasta? And, ironically, have never read or heard similar commentary. I love his shows but leave the attitude at home.

pastalover23 at 9:55PM on 03/19/08

Responses to Comments by pastalover23

From Serious Eats

Mario Unclogged: How to Sauce Pasta

Yes, my nonna always sauced pasta to prevent its stickiness and bring out the flavors, but we never lacked for sauce, or cheese. Also, there's a difference between using a lot of sauce on pasta (totally justifiable if it's great, thick, homemade sauce, I say,) and drowning it into soup. And I have never had CRUNCHY pasta, in America or anywhere in Italy, whether in a restaurant in Firenze or my family's house in Messina.

embolini9 at 4:05PM on 03/21/08