tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post8493741891339441272..comments2023-10-14T13:18:37.330+01:00Comments on angels in marble: Ragu, or Bolognese Saucehatfield girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-46658827763765782932010-01-20T11:25:13.195+00:002010-01-20T11:25:13.195+00:00Yacht, we are as one in agreeing that typical dish...Yacht, we are as one in agreeing that typical dishes do not translate themselves to other worlds.<br /><br />Baked beans in tomato sauce (fagiuoli all'uccelletto) is another unrecognisable transplant, this time Tuscan.<br /><br />Take heart! There are English dishes to die for (literally in the case of steak and kidney pudding) quite beyond the local provisioners. There isn't even a word for suet. <br /><br />Once, despairing of my capacity to explain, I took a diagram of the cut of beef I wanted to the (lady) butcher.<br /><br />"Oh Pietro, come and look," she called to her husband who was taking animals apart with a chain saw in the rear room of the shop,<br />"The signora has brought a picture of a cow to show us." So I accepted what was on offer which included being thought rather odd ever since.hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-6621097361881208482010-01-20T09:11:29.060+00:002010-01-20T09:11:29.060+00:00An excellent receipt; very mouth-watering on a dre...An excellent receipt; very mouth-watering on a dreary January morning.<br /><br />Now for why it's thought the English can't cook it:<br /><br />Pork belly - very hard to find<br />Chicken livers - fairly hard to find<br />Chicken heart - unobtainable<br />Rigatino - unobtainable<br />Chopped tomatoes - widely available but of inferior quality<br />Brodo - there won't be any<br />Wines (local) - there aren't any<br /><br />So we substitute unsuitable or ghastly things that we do happen to have; result: nasty.<br /><br />It's not that we can't, it's that we don't have the wherewithal.<br /><br />Oh for a beakerful of the warm South!Weekend Yachtsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262853091154005651noreply@blogger.com