"Victor Sack" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Giusi > wrote:
>
>> I am on 30 years and waiting. Umbrian bread is equally salt free and I
>> think it tastes like toilet paper. They have a hundred excuses, but it's
>> really a matter of what they've grown up with, although I often see the
>> very
>> defenders drizzling oil on their bread and then salting it.
>
> But you have to admit that such dishes as fettunta, panzanella, pappa
> col pomodoro, or ribollita don't taste as good when made with anything
> other than that coarse saltless bread, even if one does add salt to the
> dish eventually.

No I don't. I change twchnique a bit, but I make those with altamura.

>
> Also, often enough they do forgo salting foods, some >even going so far as
> eating their bistecche alla fiorentina with just some sprinkled pepper and
> perhaps a few drops >of olive oil and lemon juice, with no
> salt at all.
>
> Victor

IMO, meat has a lot of natural salt so I, too rarely salt la Fiorentina, but
overall, I find much of the food oversalted as presented. At present I
don't eat any other food unless I cook it, so it's a fair sample of what's
being served.

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