View Single Post
  #19 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
Giusi Giusi is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 3,306
Default Charlotte Blackmer's Panzanella - Q regarding the bread


"Melba's Jammin'" scritto nel messaggio

>> She ought to be flogged publicly in that kitchen garden.
>>
>> Victor

>
> Now, now, Bubba Wictor. Be nice.


I think we are being very nice. We have not yet used one single dirty
word.... and I know some--- a few.

IF everybody flops over and lets anyone make anything they want and call it
by a traditional time-honored, in this case even venerated way, you will
cease to know what the real thing is. You will walk into a restaurant, see
it on the menu and it will be a crapshoot as to what you get.

This is a dish that lives in the grandest tradition of country folk in
Tuscany and Umbria. It's very flexible but does require stale coarse bread
soaked and squeezed and crumbled. It requires great summer vegetables and
great oil. It doesn't have a "dressing" but is dressed. Salad dressing
simply does not exist in this country.

It's OK to make dressed salads and stick bread cubes in them. I know it's
good, even. It isn't OK to call them panzanella.