On 2016-07-30 12:48 AM, sf wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:58:04 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 14:24:05 -0400, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>
>>>> no real Italian cooks pasta in salted water, they
>>>> don't even have salt shakers on the table, they serve grated cheese
>>>> instead. Real Italians don't even salt their eggs, they sprinkle
>>>> omelets and scrambled with grated cheese. I don't think there's an
>>>> Italian meal that doesn't include some kind of cheese.
>>>
>>> Name one Italian chef that doesn't salty their water, Pussy Katz.
>>>
>>> Here's an interesting article that discusses Olive Garden NOT salting
>>> their pasta water because they got a longer warranty on their post if
>>> they didn't (they do salt thei water now).
>>>
>>> http://qz.com/265055/the-real-italia...t-if-but-when/
>>>
>>> -sw
>>
>> Interesting! They may have salted the water but salted it sparingly.
>>
>> My Italian in-laws use salt in pretty much all they cook. And no cheese on
>> eggs.
>
> Sheldon knows absolutely zero about Eye-talian cooking. *Real*
> Italians cook their pasta in water that is "as salty as the sea".

I seldom need to salt vegetables or pasta that I cook because I use salt
in the water. It took my wife a long time to learn to salt the water
more generously. Like he mother, she would salt the water with a salt
shaker and then have use the salt shaker in the table to salt the
finished product.