Cookbooks Have All Become Baroque And Very

Food Is "everyday"-it Has To Be, Or We Would Not Survive For Long. But Food Is Never Just Something To Eat. It Is Something To Find Or Hunt Or Cultivate First Of All.

Day-old Bread? Sadly, In America A Lot Of Day-old Bread Just Becomes Nasty. Italian Day-old Bread, Not Having Any Preservatives In It, Just Becomes Harder And It Doesn't Taste Old. What I Would Warn People About Is Getting Bread That's Loaded With Other Things In It, Because It Starts To Taste Old.

When You Add Just A Little Bit [of Tabasco] At The End, What You Taste Is The Spectrum Between The Cooked Chile Flavor And The Kind Of Nearly Raw, Just Kind Of Fermented Chile Flavor At The End.

If You're Going To Buy Pasta, You Should Buy Dry Pasta. If You're Going To Make It You Can Make The Real Thing, But You Shouldn't Buy Fresh Pasta.

I Might Use Milk If I Was Using A Touch Of Milk To Make Like A Lasagna Or A Baked Pasta. But Cream? That Is Totally Not The Way They Do It In Italy, And It's Not A Very Good Thing. It's Kind Of A Blanket For Flavor.