James Silverton wrote:

>> Marinara sauce is another of those misterious eyetalian dishes which
>> don't exist in Italy, here the term "marinara" is only used for
>> something containing seafood, be it a pasta, a sauce, etc, and it
>> doesn't refer to tomatoes. Then there's pizza marinara: no
>> mozzarella, tomato, garlic, oregano.

> You are perhaps a little provincial or parochial in your tastes.

No, simply I'm italian and not napolitan.

> In Italy "Marinara" is simply tomatoes and garlic cooked in oil.

No, it isn't, if you enter en italian restaurant *in Italy* and see
"marinara spaghetti" no the menu it will be a dish of spaghetti AND seafood.
Just tomato and oil is not marinara here, there it may represent whatever
you want but not he the fact that someone used the italian word
"marinara" for a sauce doesn't mean nothing about the use of that same word
in Italy. The only exception to that is pasta alla marinara which is a
recipe from Naples (here's why I talk about being not a napolitan) which
contains tomatoes, garlic and oregano, but everyone from outof Naples will
call it a fake-marinara since marinara means "with seafood".
The fun part is that you, who only know this napolitan interpretation of the
marinara name, are saying that I am a little provincial or parochial. Sheesh
Look here what you get when you ask google "alla marinara" without
specifying nothing else:
http://tinyurl.com/ox9pvrs
In the first 50 results, the only exceptions to what I said are from US
sites: iStockPhoto.com, worldtotable.com and menuism.com while talking about
a restaurant in Utah.
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"Un pasto senza vino e' come un giorno senza sole"
Anthelme Brillat Savarin