Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Pasta and Cheese

Writing recently in the NY Times, filmmaker Robert Trachtenberg laid bare his oddball status:
Sneer all you want, but I like cheese on seafood pasta. For years I even managed to escape the wrath of the Italian people for this supposed transgression. And then I went to Milan.

The waiter didn’t yell at me exactly. Rather, he turned to the nearest table and started screaming at them — something about ruining his food, the culture, the country . . .

Don’t put cheese on your seafood, don’t order a cappuccino after noon, keep your bread right side up — the rules never stopped. Was I in my own culinary Siberia?

I veer to the other extreme — no parmesan on any pasta dishes.

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