02-18-2010, 11:00 AM
(02-18-2010, 10:16 AM)Ordinary Peephole Wrote:(02-18-2010, 09:19 AM)ramseycat Wrote: I make an excellent lasagna.
Unless you an Italian American New Yorker you are a liar.
Authentic Italian cuisine can only be done by Italian New Yorkers, even though wop yanks from New York, Chicago, California, New Haven, Hawaii and Buffalo can't even agree on what a real pizza should be like.
Italian cuisine is very complex even though its the first type of cuisine they teach you in chef school because its so easy and simple a fucking blind monkey could make it.
Italian cuisine is much more than just lasagna, meatballs, and New York pizza. Thats more of an American wop thing, the same way an all you can eat Chinese buffet is not a good representation of Asian cuisine.
An authentic pizza should be small, thin crisp dough, browned around the edges, sweetly scented from a wood fire, light with toppings to maintain their freshness, and baked between 600-700 degrees. Francis can argue with me about Italian food all he wants, but I don't have an imported Italian brick oven in my kitchen just to dick around with lasagna.