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From: poldy on 24 Sep 2006 14:10 In article <kj12h2poqd4b8pugg03pbaroahvv81qus4(a)4ax.com>, Martin <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >In Germany one can find a good assortment of bread at a baker's shop, > >but the average italian will wonder why it is not available in the > >typical restaurant. According to German custom some dishes are served > >with white bread, some other with brown bread (which usually tastes > >acid to an Italian > > It's what in the US is called sour dough bread. Out in SF, sour dough bread is made by bakers with Italian names like Colombo.
From: poldy on 24 Sep 2006 14:12 In article <Pine.LNX.4.61.0609201331530.6193(a)cbfrvqba.ynzoengr.vans.vg>, Giovanni Drogo <drogo(a)rn.bastiani.ta.invalid> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Miss L. Toe wrote: > > > > I am sorry to say that I rank UK as the worst for bread. > > > > The ciabatta that sainsburys sell is great ! > > Thank you for not quoting my entire message as some other posters did. > > There were no ciabatte in the UK nor in Italy 20 years ago when I lived > there. Ciabatta, like tartaruga, is one of the new "fashion" sorts of > bread introduced recently. > > I do not quite like them, usually not crusty enough. What they call here > "pane arabo" ("arab bread", but I guess Arabs will recognise it as > Russians will recognise a "russian salad", or English an "english soup" > [from italian "zuppa inglese", trifle]) is even worse, looks raw to me. > > In lack of michette, who almost nobody bakes nowadays, I prefer > "francesini" or "bocconcini". What about foccacia? Or what they use to make panini? Thought about getting a panini here at the grocers but they were using thick slices of French bread.
From: poldy on 24 Sep 2006 14:18 In article <66f3h21bm48t6qmgioj6h1suauutipki91(a)4ax.com>, Martin <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Get a Panasonic ABM instead. Anti Ballistic Missile?
From: Dave Frightens Me on 24 Sep 2006 15:32 On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:07:58 -0700, poldy <poldy(a)kfu.com> wrote: >In article ><Pine.LNX.4.61.0609201002530.29645(a)cbfrvqba.ynzoengr.vans.vg>, > Giovanni Drogo <drogo(a)rn.bastiani.ta.invalid> wrote: > >> Bread is (or was in the peasant culture of the past) a very important >> part of the meal. Real italians cannot eat a "second course' (meat or >> fish) without bread. I remember my uncles, who were masons, once went to >> Switzerland for a work. They brought salame with them, but hoped to buy >> bread there. They did not find any, and so did not eat anything. > >After a pasta dish, they eat bread with the meat? After a pasta dish, you can use bread to mop up the remaining sauce if it's good. >Atkins not translated into Italian? God I hope not! It's not achieved a great deal in the USA, as they're still all getting fatter. Someone should tell them that food's a pleasure, not a reward. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 24 Sep 2006 15:30
Dave Frightens Me <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:07:58 -0700, poldy <poldy(a)kfu.com> wrote: [] > >Atkins not translated into Italian? > > God I hope not! It's not achieved a great deal in the USA, as they're > still all getting fatter. It's becoming a problem in many European countries too- particularly with children. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://www.davidhorne.net/pictures.html http://soundjunction.org |