When you are going out for Italian, you usually are not going out for Italian. Nearly all of the time, you are going out for Italian-American.
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“I think that what we have to respect, is that Italian-American food is a separate reality from Italian food.(…) Everyone loves Chicken Parmigiana”. Well-known Italian cuisine expert Fred Plotkin shares his love for both culinary traditions
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Can you “cook good and eat well” even if you are not trying to imitate some dinner from some far-off restaurant in Italy? Musings around an interesting article, the politics of “cuisine criticism,” and the strange relationship between Italians and Italian Americans.