▲ 21 ▼ (American) Italian cooking advice sucks (lemmy.ml) submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world 33 comments fedilink hide all child comments You should not cook pasta in water as salty as the ocean, and there is such a thing as too much garlic. Edit: I liberally but not excessively use salt in pasta water and garlic in dishes which include garlic.
[–] acantharea@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 child) 🫠 lol wuttttt Now what kinda of american italian? NYC Italian? New Haven Italian? Chicago Italian???? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago Iunno, but they are all super obsessed with telling you just how Italian they are and how their nona gobbles their ghoul better than any other nona or whatever. And they get real cranky if you bring up that they and their family haven't been to the old country in like 3 generations at this point. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago Iunno, but they are all super obsessed with telling you just how Italian they are and how their nona gobbles their ghoul better than any other nona or whatever. And they get real cranky if you bring up that they and their family haven't been to the old country in like 3 generations at this point. permalink fedilink source parent