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Im so sick of americans thinking they are eating Italian food when in fact its american food with prego added.


I grew up in a real deal Italian family.
We ate authentic Italian food.
Italian Food in America is an insult to my roots.
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I need a real Italian recipe for pizza dough.

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Sure. I will message you.

Thank you! If willing, you can post it here in a reply.

Meanwhile....I hear what you are saying. It may sound strange, but I ate at some really fine Greek and Italian restaurants in Alaska - mostly because they were owned and operated by 1st and 2nd generation imigrants - so they knew better than anyone.
I recently moved to Texas and what they call "Pizza" here is down right blasphemous and finding anything that is authentically Italian remains to be seen.
Help! I badly miss the pizzas and calzones!

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Sure. I will message you.

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Are you talking about italian restaurants or homemade? And where in America?

New York Italian restaurant scene is going to be higher quality and more "i-talian" than Texas italian food. though that becomes less true as the years go by. It's definitely not as good now as it was 30 years ago.

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So true.

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Yes new york Italian food is closer than most places .
However it still misses the mark.
Im a food snob. Take it with a grain of salt.
I also heard they want to build 800 dominos pizzas in Italy.
The Italians are not soo happy about crappy american pizza in Italy.
Can you blame them

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Anonymous wrote:
Yes new york Italian food is closer than most places .
However it still misses the mark.
Im a food snob. Take it with a grain of salt.
I also heard they want to build 800 dominos pizzas in Italy.
The Italians are not soo happy about crappy american pizza in Italy.
Can you blame them

I am too. TRUST ME, I know exactly what you're talking about in this specific circumstance, I've had me my share of italian food.

I like Domino's but it's not really pizza in the sense that I treasure it.

There is nothing like New York pizza, in my opinion, though it's all about where you get it and how you like it within that. Pizza from Italy is it's own animal which is different from what we get in the US.

There was those ads for Digiorno pizza where the point is that it's so good you can't tell it's a frozen pizza.

If you can't tell a frozen pizza from a fresh pizza then the pizza you are used to is horrible.

The sad thing is, most likely the italian food scene, at least in the states, is only going to get worse unless you go to high end places. The joe schmo italian places are going to gradually get worse and have been for decades.

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Agreed100 per cent

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I think I have a solution for your Italian pizza craving. It's a small little place called Luna Rossa. It is not a franchise. Owned by two brothers that came from Italy. They couldn't find authentic pizza either so they decided to open their own place. Check out some of the pictures.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g...

Consistent 5star ratings too.

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@soco

Dammmitt, soco - you just had to link the visuals...
That's it, I'm comming over - dinner's on you.
Power up the kitchen!
😂😂😂😂😂

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Dammmitt, soco - you just had to link the visuals...
That's it, I'm comming over - dinner's on you.
Power up the kitchen!
😂😂😂😂😂

Finally! Company's coming over so I no longer need an excuse to wash the guest towels. Been just sitting there since '07.


1907.

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@soco

........1907........

😂😂😂🙌🙌🙌😂😂😂

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Haha! I like that 😆

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u havent tasted Italian until you been to the olive garden :P bahahaha jk jk

to have authentic italian gotta cook it from scratch .. lots of garlic and lots of love!

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Exactly

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some simple noodles and meat thrown in a sloppy sauce with no spices nor seasonings from some mean woman's basement? ...i'll stick with my ameritalian food tyvm.

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key ingredients are.. oregano.. basil.. and god awful cilantro if not parsley bahaha!.

then the lame tomato sauce

Parmesan and Garlic makes it DEEvinE!

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some simple noodles and meat thrown in a sloppy sauce with no spices nor seasonings from some mean woman's basement? ...i'll stick with my ameritalian food tyvm.

We're saying not that.

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Lano wrote:

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some simple noodles and meat thrown in a sloppy sauce with no spices nor seasonings from some mean woman's basement? ...i'll stick with my ameritalian food tyvm.

We're saying not that.

I concur. That recipe I can get that a Bob Evans for a Thursday night special.

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Though tbh fresh tomato sauce and good pasta doesn't necessarily need seasoning.

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Authentic, Italian, pizza dough recipe, anyone?

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that dough recipie .. very important! ..

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SassyMonkey wrote:
that dough recipie .. very important! ..

Truth! You just can't have molten cheese and boiling pork fat running off of any saltine cracker!

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