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The best Italian food is simple and puts the quality of the ingredients front and foremost
Which results in mostly bland food while a similar approach in Japan lifts the ingredients to another level.
Also not putting salt in your bread because you didn't want to pay some tax 400 years ago? Fuck of with that shit
sohi-
No offence, but I think your palate is the issue not the cuisine.
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Which results in mostly bland food while a similar approach in Japan lifts the ingredients to another level.
Codswallop. You've either got faulty taste buds or you've not eaten the real deal.
I lived with a proper nonna in Verona who made everything from scratch and everything came from within 15km of the city. It was incredible.
I love Japanese food but I feel a bit like you're comparing apples and pears there...
hugo7
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They've had this guy on the Cycling Podcast, it was interesting. He's quite right in that a lot of the Italian food 'traditions' actually started in the 50s or 60s.
I think 'gastronationalism' is a bit strong, but Italy is a very homogeneous society with a lot of set ways of doing things and much more shared culture than the UK. If you don't behave in these set ways you can expect someone to call it unitalian - normally someone older, if I'm honest.
The best Italian food is simple and puts the quality of the ingredients front and foremost, in my experience most of the best food these days is associated with the 'km0' (zero kilometre) or slow food movements.
Obviously @sohi you've not had any.