"The Ranger"

> My Italian friend, from Rome and living here temporarily, does know what >
> Italian Herb is, doesn't use McCormick (only one of many spice companies),
> and is still quite a cook. You're still wrong.

Said friend is IN the USA and probably read the label. There is no such
mixture here in Italy. There are some ground herb mixes w/o salt formulated
for meat, fish, salad and a seasoned salt called Salarom which contains
salt, rosemary, garlic and pepper. At Campo dei Fiori in Rome some vendors
mix and package seasonings w/o salt labeled "pasta puttanesca" etc., but
they sell them mostly to foreigners as far as I could see.

The hundreds of proprietary mixes of the US simply don't exist here. I hear
of many more in the UK, but they seem to be mostly for curry or some such.


>> C) The rest of the world has other spice mixes.
>> Usually better than the USAn stuff.

Not very many. I cook in lots of countries and they are few where I have
cooked, other than mixtures for foreign foods; i.e., Indonesian in Holland,
Indian in the UK, and if I travel all the way to Rome and go to a foreign
food shop I can buy a Moroccan rub for barbecue.
>
> No, just other. You're being provincial -- and still wrong.
>
I think you are wrong. He was a bit nasty about it, but less wrong than you
are.