I totally agree! Of all the places we've stayed in, I think our last few months in Sicily were the peak in terms of groceries and cooking. We just swapped the supermarket with the local farmer's market and everything was in season and so tasty!
I just purchased Stanley Tucci’s Italian cookbooks and my dishes have improved using his recipes. The measurements of the ingredients is a little different than others I’ve used in the past. His family’s Pesto sauce is perfection. I’ve got a great supply of basil growing this year and I’ve already made and frozen a few batches of the Pesto Sauce. More still to process. My husband agreed that the balance of ingredients is perfect.
I’m Italian American but I still couldn’t agree more. My great grandma from Calabria was a fabulous cook. My partners grandpa also from Italy makes beautiful Christmas dinners.
There is a big difference between simple and easy. Creme brulee is simple. Making it come out properly is not easy. Even a simple pasta sauce may take several hours to make and you would still need to know when to add the different ingredients or it may turn out awful despite all the work. Italian food is like Japanese food. The ingredients are so good, you don't have to hide them.
Ok but have you ever had an American shelf stable pastry? That's made up of about 130-290 ingredients? And felt its radioactive components light up your intestines within 30 seconds of your first bite?
I was in italy last year with my family for 2 weeks, most restaurants were super disappointing or straight up bad despite waht the rating would have you believe. Looking at the comments I think they were fake or were the locals. However pizza places never disappointed. And I ate one good pasta in a restaurant, the simple tomato one. None of the others. I agree on the good ingerdients though. But not all ingredients should be mixed. Additionally, most menus are in italian and the most don't speak english like at all. And if any of your family members have gluten allergy you better make all your food yourself. Google maps is also little help when trying to find gluten free places. We had arguments every fucking day about this and spent so much time looking for resturants. Italians are also rude for no reason expect to be stared down, and yelled at despite doing nothing wrong. My dad was driving 30 down a narrow road with many turns, people and kids are walking up and down both sides on the road, yet the locals are going 50 passing us by as if an accident isn't only a matter of time. If I had been driving 50 down that road my driving teacher would have pressed the breaks, yelled at me and probably taken over the rest of the drive. A little further down where it was safer a motorcyclist passed us by going 10 km/h faster. He blew his horn and emoted for 10 seconds straight while driving his bike. And no we werent driving on the wrong side of the road. If you are gonna go I recommend to plan EVERYTHING BEFORE you get there. And then there are the fucking countless highway gates. Oh and I forgot about every hotel being infested with mold. One literally locked us in with gates when we tried to leave because we couldn't fucking breathe. I thought we were taken to a terrorist facility. and most places have no functioning airconditioning, it barely does anything. I had to sleep with a wet towl on me many nights. It made me realize how blessed I am to live in Norway where everything works. Hotels don't have mold, you can control the temperature, there is clean tap water everywhere unless its literally broken. Google maps works as intended, dangerous killer hornets don't invade or camp outside your home. nor do we have any dangerous snakes or insect. strangers and employees are nice and polite.
I dated a girl from guangdong and sichuan (chongqing to be precise) and as much as i love asian (chinese food specifically) i have to give the edge to italian and sicilian food. A lot of chinese dishes have a lot of sauces and pastes added in, and many of those nowadays are processed with crazy ingredients. For example, doubanjiang is used a lot in sichuan, and if made at home, is a beautiful paste. But most doubqnjiang from the store is cut with additives. In italian food, a similar equivalent would be using a "dado" (stock cube) which saves time at the expense of ingredients. I see a lot more in chinese cooking though. Both absolutely rock though. Still love me some dandanmian and 红烧牛肉面
Wow! Fantastic explanation and great example, it's such a shame that those delicious sauces are nowadays industrialized and full of additives. Nothing beats home cooking cause you know everything that's been used! I can't wait to go and try food there, I've heard Sichuan is the absolute best!
I mean I think homecooked food and homemade being better for you applies in every cuisine. Although I will say that there are plenty of places in China that still make everything from scratch with fresh homegrown ingredients. I mean look at tropical Yunnan - with the mountains and climate they grow everything there fresh and even coffee beans from there is becoming very trendy with coffee shops specializing in Yunnan coffee bean popping up everywhere there. If you look at Dianxi Xiaoge's videos on RUclips you can see her making Yunnan food off the fresh veggies from family farm and homemade Tofu. 🥰 Love both Italian and Chinese food!
@@mabellemichelle We will risky check her out! We are planning on spending some time in Yunnan and Dav is such a coffee head that he's already excited by this comment 🤣 one more reason to go there ASAP! 🤩 (En route to China as we write this!)
@@davandj io non ho capito cosa fosse il fiordilatte di Agerola finché non sono stato ad Agerola... La cosa bella dell'Italia è che puoi avere una rivelazione come quella in ogni paesino che visiti. Con la qualità degli ingredienti che abbiamo una cucina troppo complessa sarebbe deleteria.
Verissimo! Molti stranieri appena sanno dell'esistenza di differenze tra regione a regione, ma anche facendo qualche km in macchina da un paesino all'altro cambiano prodotti, piatti tipici e cucina!
Amazing! A wonderful and simple explanation! 🙏
Thank you so much! Glad you found the explanation was good!!!
Simple / local ingredients and cooking food which is in season makes Italian food incredible.
I totally agree! Of all the places we've stayed in, I think our last few months in Sicily were the peak in terms of groceries and cooking. We just swapped the supermarket with the local farmer's market and everything was in season and so tasty!
I just purchased Stanley Tucci’s Italian cookbooks and my dishes have improved using his recipes. The measurements of the ingredients is a little different than others I’ve used in the past.
His family’s Pesto sauce is perfection.
I’ve got a great supply of basil growing this year and I’ve already made and frozen a few batches of the Pesto Sauce. More still to process.
My husband agreed that the balance of ingredients is perfect.
I’m Italian American but I still couldn’t agree more. My great grandma from Calabria was a fabulous cook. My partners grandpa also from Italy makes beautiful Christmas dinners.
Aaaaw Calabria food ❤️🤩
There is a big difference between simple and easy. Creme brulee is simple. Making it come out properly is not easy. Even a simple pasta sauce may take several hours to make and you would still need to know when to add the different ingredients or it may turn out awful despite all the work. Italian food is like Japanese food. The ingredients are so good, you don't have to hide them.
Well said! Simple =/= Easy
I love Italian food, I could eat it everyday!
Makes 2 of us (probably way more :P )
And it’s true 😂
Well said !
@@joebonsaipoland Thank you!!! ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
Perfect explanation ❤
Aaaw thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! 🤗
Ok but have you ever had an American shelf stable pastry? That's made up of about 130-290 ingredients? And felt its radioactive components light up your intestines within 30 seconds of your first bite?
I have. They don’t taste that good. Way too sweet to cover that bad taste to appeal to the palates of children.
I've heard if you can read an American food label you automatically earn a PhD in chemistry.
Well now I’m determined to get Sorrento lemons. My daughter and I love lemon everything
Aaaww you'll love them!
High quality ingredients.
Super important!
We have a lot more to offer than just pasta and pizza
True that!
Damn i want to go to italy now
I was in italy last year with my family for 2 weeks, most restaurants were super disappointing or straight up bad despite waht the rating would have you believe. Looking at the comments I think they were fake or were the locals. However pizza places never disappointed. And I ate one good pasta in a restaurant, the simple tomato one. None of the others. I agree on the good ingerdients though. But not all ingredients should be mixed. Additionally, most menus are in italian and the most don't speak english like at all. And if any of your family members have gluten allergy you better make all your food yourself. Google maps is also little help when trying to find gluten free places. We had arguments every fucking day about this and spent so much time looking for resturants. Italians are also rude for no reason expect to be stared down, and yelled at despite doing nothing wrong. My dad was driving 30 down a narrow road with many turns, people and kids are walking up and down both sides on the road, yet the locals are going 50 passing us by as if an accident isn't only a matter of time. If I had been driving 50 down that road my driving teacher would have pressed the breaks, yelled at me and probably taken over the rest of the drive. A little further down where it was safer a motorcyclist passed us by going 10 km/h faster. He blew his horn and emoted for 10 seconds straight while driving his bike. And no we werent driving on the wrong side of the road. If you are gonna go I recommend to plan EVERYTHING BEFORE you get there. And then there are the fucking countless highway gates. Oh and I forgot about every hotel being infested with mold. One literally locked us in with gates when we tried to leave because we couldn't fucking breathe. I thought we were taken to a terrorist facility. and most places have no functioning airconditioning, it barely does anything. I had to sleep with a wet towl on me many nights. It made me realize how blessed I am to live in Norway where everything works. Hotels don't have mold, you can control the temperature, there is clean tap water everywhere unless its literally broken. Google maps works as intended, dangerous killer hornets don't invade or camp outside your home. nor do we have any dangerous snakes or insect. strangers and employees are nice and polite.
People who call Italian food simple for those reasons have never had Mexican food before
Ooooh now I'll crave Mexican all day after reading this 🙈🙈
Why is Italian food underrated? That’s news to me. Live and learn, I guess.
What can we do as an American to get the best possible ingredients for Italian food in America… one food lover to another ❤
I'm sure there must be local organic excellence ingredients there too! Just gotta find em with a bit of research!
I dated a girl from guangdong and sichuan (chongqing to be precise) and as much as i love asian (chinese food specifically) i have to give the edge to italian and sicilian food. A lot of chinese dishes have a lot of sauces and pastes added in, and many of those nowadays are processed with crazy ingredients. For example, doubanjiang is used a lot in sichuan, and if made at home, is a beautiful paste. But most doubqnjiang from the store is cut with additives. In italian food, a similar equivalent would be using a "dado" (stock cube) which saves time at the expense of ingredients. I see a lot more in chinese cooking though. Both absolutely rock though. Still love me some dandanmian and 红烧牛肉面
Wow! Fantastic explanation and great example, it's such a shame that those delicious sauces are nowadays industrialized and full of additives. Nothing beats home cooking cause you know everything that's been used! I can't wait to go and try food there, I've heard Sichuan is the absolute best!
I mean I think homecooked food and homemade being better for you applies in every cuisine. Although I will say that there are plenty of places in China that still make everything from scratch with fresh homegrown ingredients. I mean look at tropical Yunnan - with the mountains and climate they grow everything there fresh and even coffee beans from there is becoming very trendy with coffee shops specializing in Yunnan coffee bean popping up everywhere there. If you look at Dianxi Xiaoge's videos on RUclips you can see her making Yunnan food off the fresh veggies from family farm and homemade Tofu. 🥰 Love both Italian and Chinese food!
@@mabellemichelle We will risky check her out! We are planning on spending some time in Yunnan and Dav is such a coffee head that he's already excited by this comment 🤣 one more reason to go there ASAP! 🤩 (En route to China as we write this!)
Hispanic food is good everytimebu eat it. Itslian food relies to much on tomatoes
Pastas are the biggest scam!!!
Yes it's overrated.
Italian food IS overrated
Def overrated. Olive oil, cheese and tomato sauce on everything. Life is more than that.
Non fa una piega
Pazzesco quando provi qualcosa preso nella località o regione di provenienza e ti rendi conto che prima non l'avevi mai davvero provato!
@@davandj io non ho capito cosa fosse il fiordilatte di Agerola finché non sono stato ad Agerola... La cosa bella dell'Italia è che puoi avere una rivelazione come quella in ogni paesino che visiti.
Con la qualità degli ingredienti che abbiamo una cucina troppo complessa sarebbe deleteria.
Verissimo! Molti stranieri appena sanno dell'esistenza di differenze tra regione a regione, ma anche facendo qualche km in macchina da un paesino all'altro cambiano prodotti, piatti tipici e cucina!