30 GENIUS Cooking Tricks 1920s Italian Restaurants Hoped You'd Never Find Out
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30 GENIUS Cooking Tricks 1920s Italian Restaurants Hoped You'd Never Find Out
You walk into an Italian restaurant, sit down, and the moment that food hits your table, something happens that you cannot explain. The sauce is richer than anything you have ever made at home.
⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:31 #30 Put the pasta next to the meat
1:33 #29 One fixed price for the whole dinner
2:30 #28 Keep dessert light, on purpose
3:27 #27 Hide stale bread inside the meatball
4:26 #26 Make the meatball bigger than expected
5:27 #25 Grate the sharp sheep's cheese
6:28 #24 Build the sauce on concentrated tomato
7:28 #23 Don't trust "absolutely pure" olive oil
8:29 #22 Pull the pasta before it goes soft
9:28 #21 Let somebody else make the pasta
10:27 #20 Put the strange green vegetable on the menu
11:26 #19 Make a thin slice of veal the star
12:28 #18 Name the humble dish after a famous man
13:29 #17 Give the famous regular his own room
14:28 #16 Hang the proof on the wall
15:30 #15 Burn coal, not wood
16:32 #14 Use fresh cheese and plum tomatoes
17:31 #13 Wrap it up and send it home
18:35 #12 Sell everything except the liquor
19:34 #11 Pour the wine into a coffee cup
20:34 #10 Use the 200-gallon loophole
21:35 #9 Press the same grapes three times
22:37 #8 If the law won't move, move the restaurant
23:38 #7 Get the anchovy flavor from a bottle
24:39 #6 End the night with a machine nobody's seen
25:39 #5 Cook every plate of spaghetti to order
26:40 #4 Finish the dish in front of the customer
27:44 #3 Triple the butter
28:47 #2 When the kitchen runs dry, invent something
29:46 #1 Sell the secret sauce in a milk bottle
30:46 Outro
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📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Wikipedia: Caesar salad, Ettore Boiardi, Chef Boyardee, Totonno’s, Caffe Reggio, D’Arrigo Brothers, Spaghetti and meatballs
americanheritage.com/where-eat (gids uit 1923) en americanheritage.com/node/54927 (Caruso)
chowhound.com, 177milkstreet.com en flytographer.com (Alfredo)
nationalgeographic.com, kuow.org en sandiegoreader.com (Caesar)
history.com (loki.editorial.aetnd.com) en lagazzettaitaliana.com (Boiardi, Contadina, Progresso)
redsauceamerica.com (Totonno’s, Spaghetti Caruso 1939)
edinformatics.com en pmq.com (kolenoven)
publichistory.humanities.uva.nl (wijn in koffiekopjes)
vinepair.com (Chumley’s)
grapecollective.com, tastingtable.com en thebacklabel (200 gallon, Alicante)
vintagemenuart.com (Black Cat)
airspacemag.com/Smithsonian en cookingbythebook.com (gehaktballen)
ilsole24ore.com en thenibble.com (Pecorino)
contadina.com
fdanj.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/fdnj11104 en collections.nlm.nih.gov (olijfolie)
observatory.wiki en coquinaria.nl (kooktijd pasta, Artusi)
airmail.news en goldbelly.com (Raffetto’s)
andyboy.com (pdf)
womensactivism.nyc (Leone’s)
untappedcities.com (Reggio)
search.library.wisc.edu (tijdschrift uit 1927)
gutenberg.org/ebooks/24407 (Gentile 1919)
homemade-dessert-recipes.com/italian-zabaglione-recipe.html
dinogo.com (aubergine)
tastingtable.com/1628316 (aubergine)
vintagemenuart.com (Black Cat, zabaione)
#food
#history
#italy
30 GENIUS Cooking Tricks 1920s Italian Restaurants Hoped You'd Never Find Out
Italy Remembered
80 views
30 GENIUS Cooking Tricks 1920s Italian Restaurants Hoped You'd Never Find Out
You walk into an Italian restaurant, sit down, and the moment that food hits your table, something happens that you cannot explain. The sauce is richer than anything you have ever made at home.
⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:31 #30 Put the pasta next to the meat
1:33 #29 One fixed price for the whole dinner
2:30 #28 Keep dessert light, on purpose
3:27 #27 Hide stale bread inside the meatball
4:26 #26 Make the meatball bigger than expected
5:27 #25 Grate the sharp sheep's cheese
6:28 #24 Build the sauce on concentrated tomato
7:28 #23 Don't trust "absolutely pure" olive oil
8:29 #22 Pull the pasta before it goes soft
9:28 #21 Let somebody else make the pasta
10:27 #20 Put the strange green vegetable on the menu
11:26 #19 Make a thin slice of veal the star
12:28 #18 Name the humble dish after a famous man
13:29 #17 Give the famous regular his own room
14:28 #16 Hang the proof on the wall
15:30 #15 Burn coal, not wood
16:32 #14 Use fresh cheese and plum tomatoes
17:31 #13 Wrap it up and send it home
18:35 #12 Sell everything except the liquor
19:34 #11 Pour the wine into a coffee cup
20:34 #10 Use the 200-gallon loophole
21:35 #9 Press the same grapes three times
22:37 #8 If the law won't move, move the restaurant
23:38 #7 Get the anchovy flavor from a bottle
24:39 #6 End the night with a machine nobody's seen
25:39 #5 Cook every plate of spaghetti to order
26:40 #4 Finish the dish in front of the customer
27:44 #3 Triple the butter
28:47 #2 When the kitchen runs dry, invent something
29:46 #1 Sell the secret sauce in a milk bottle
30:46 Outro
Hungry for more forgotten history? SUBSCRIBE🔔👉@italyremembered
📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Wikipedia: Caesar salad, Ettore Boiardi, Chef Boyardee, Totonno’s, Caffe Reggio, D’Arrigo Brothers, Spaghetti and meatballs
americanheritage.com/where-eat (gids uit 1923) en americanheritage.com/node/54927 (Caruso)
chowhound.com, 177milkstreet.com en flytographer.com (Alfredo)
nationalgeographic.com, kuow.org en sandiegoreader.com (Caesar)
history.com (loki.editorial.aetnd.com) en lagazzettaitaliana.com (Boiardi, Contadina, Progresso)
redsauceamerica.com (Totonno’s, Spaghetti Caruso 1939)
edinformatics.com en pmq.com (kolenoven)
publichistory.humanities.uva.nl (wijn in koffiekopjes)
vinepair.com (Chumley’s)
grapecollective.com, tastingtable.com en thebacklabel (200 gallon, Alicante)
vintagemenuart.com (Black Cat)
airspacemag.com/Smithsonian en cookingbythebook.com (gehaktballen)
ilsole24ore.com en thenibble.com (Pecorino)
contadina.com
fdanj.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/fdnj11104 en collections.nlm.nih.gov (olijfolie)
observatory.wiki en coquinaria.nl (kooktijd pasta, Artusi)
airmail.news en goldbelly.com (Raffetto’s)
andyboy.com (pdf)
womensactivism.nyc (Leone’s)
untappedcities.com (Reggio)
search.library.wisc.edu (tijdschrift uit 1927)
gutenberg.org/ebooks/24407 (Gentile 1919)
homemade-dessert-recipes.com/italian-zabaglione-recipe.html
dinogo.com (aubergine)
tastingtable.com/1628316 (aubergine)
vintagemenuart.com (Black Cat, zabaione)
#food
#history
#italy