Sweet potatoes are the cure for loneliness

Eurovision:

Photography: Sherman Chu

Wanting to be invited but not wanting to go anywhere. 

Being lonely at home but not wanting anyone in your space unless you really like them.

Expectation:

Reality:

Pepperoni => Peperoni = Peppers

What the US calls “pepperoni” is actually salame (“salami” is a wrong spelling, panini is the plural of panino). This is what real peperoni (singular peperone) look like. They come in different shapes and colours and have so many beneficial properties that I’d need more pages than the whole asoiaf saga to describe them. Especially since they change depending on the colour of the pepeone. Salame is seasoned salted meat and fat (usually pork). It can be hot/spicy or not. It can also be spreadable, like the ’nduja from Calabria (Wikipedia calls it a sausage, but it’s salame). It obviously is not as healthy as peperoni (no double p). The plural of pizza is pizze as much as the plural of neko is neko. 

Another thing I usually hear a lot about pizza abroad is that they replace mozzarella with cheese, which are two completely different things. A pizza with cheese (formaggio) is not a Margherita anymore, for example. There are a lot of pizza types that involve cheese of different kinds and a lot of pizza types that involve mozzarella of different types (mozzarella di bufala, for example). Mozzarella di bufala is a DOP product: it’s unique because of the place it’s produced in, the raw materials used and the way they are obtained (the bufale are bred in specific ways and fed specific and controlled food), the methods used to produce it and so on. 

We invented pizza bianca, which you can either fill with ingredients on the inside or use as a base to put stuff upon, like the pizza boscaiola (mushrooms, mozzarella and sausage; no tomato). We invented pizza al taglio, which is hard to find even in Italy itself, depending on the city you’re in.

But that’s not the problem. I don’t care about who invented what, I don’t care if Italy invented pizza, pasta, gelato or limoncello. It’s about the process. It’s about using good ingredients. It’s about making a good dough that doesn’t taste like fucking rubber when you chew it. Or pizza that has been drowned in oil (ugh). It’s also about respecting another culture, because you should never feel entitled to say “I know this better than you even though your culture has been making it for hundreds of years”. Especially since this whole attitude towards Italian food damages our economy. And is just generally disrespectful. You can put whatever the hell you want on your pizza (in the limits of decency), just be conscious of what pizza really is. Like, have a taste of regular pizza before you go around yelling that [pizza with weird ingredients whose name is probably misspelled] is the one and only.

Il celibato ecclesiastico

La faccia di Gabriel Garko

Gli hamburger del McDonald 

Benigni che pubblicizza il libro del Papa

Il QI di crede di trovare ‘petaloso’ nella nuova edizione dello Zanichelli

L’autoabbronzante 

L’acqua che elimina l’acqua

La mediaset che manda in onda una versione censurata de Le Iene (il film, non il programma tv ndr)

La mediaset che ogni pomeriggio alle due manda in onda una soap opera in cui la gente non fa altro che riprodursi come conigli in calore

I romanzi distillati

Le domeniche d’Agosto quanta neve che cadrà

Fabio Fazio da quando gli hanno asportato la spina dorsale

Le extension per capelli

La grammatiKa…… dei quarantenni……. su facebook………..

‘Che lavoro fai?’ ‘la fashion blogger’

Salvini che cita De Andrè

Vivere in funzione delle spunte blu di whatsapp

‘Cercasi neolaureato con esperienza’

L’oroscopo