Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2016 2:07:38 GMT 7
Italy has seen its share of heretics. Galileo spent his final years under house arrest for insisting that the Earth orbited the sun.
In Bologna, a brave marketing executive has dared to put forward a theory that will be considered equally unthinkable – perhaps even blasphemous: that the dish known in Britain as spaghetti bolognese exists in Italy and is perfectly acceptable.
This will be news to many Italians, who have derided the dish as a gastronomic aberration for decades. But, much like Galileo himself, Piero Valdiserra claims to have found proof. His examination of old texts found that – far from being a figment of the British culinary imagination – spaghetti bolognese, or spaghetti al ragù, as it would be known in Italy, dates back five centuries.
It is steeped in Bologna’s culinary tradition, he says.
Controversy surrounding the dish resurfaced last month, when Antonio Carluccio became the latest in a long line of chefs to complain that one of Britain’s favourite “Italian” dishes did not, in fact, exist in Italy. Massimo Bottura, whose restaurant in Modena, Osteria Francescana, was named the best in the world this year, has also complained about “crazy versions” of the pasta dish.
www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/24/italian-or-british-writer-solves-riddle-of-spaghetti-bolognese
In Bologna, a brave marketing executive has dared to put forward a theory that will be considered equally unthinkable – perhaps even blasphemous: that the dish known in Britain as spaghetti bolognese exists in Italy and is perfectly acceptable.
This will be news to many Italians, who have derided the dish as a gastronomic aberration for decades. But, much like Galileo himself, Piero Valdiserra claims to have found proof. His examination of old texts found that – far from being a figment of the British culinary imagination – spaghetti bolognese, or spaghetti al ragù, as it would be known in Italy, dates back five centuries.
It is steeped in Bologna’s culinary tradition, he says.
Controversy surrounding the dish resurfaced last month, when Antonio Carluccio became the latest in a long line of chefs to complain that one of Britain’s favourite “Italian” dishes did not, in fact, exist in Italy. Massimo Bottura, whose restaurant in Modena, Osteria Francescana, was named the best in the world this year, has also complained about “crazy versions” of the pasta dish.
www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/24/italian-or-british-writer-solves-riddle-of-spaghetti-bolognese
