The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #24254   Message #277293
Posted By: GUEST,Fedele (now in Germany)
14-Aug-00 - 05:34 AM
Thread Name: Tell me how to cook real Goulash!
Subject: RE: Tell me how to cook real Goulash!
Ok, thank you. I always exaggerate when i try to be a "philologist" in music or in cooking. I just don´t like the idea of flour and I think a pint of beer and a bottle of wine is a bit too much - I think it should be less wet, but maybe if you let it cook 3 hours it will dry a lot. I will try. (in winter, of course)
I sometimes think people should eat just what their own country gives them... I still have nightmares when I think about that pasta, and the pasta they cook here in Germany is not much better. But it´s not the way you cook it: it´s the concept. Pasta is a dish with its own dignity: it´s not something you just put next to something else. And it should be a little more thick than they do in foreign countries. And it´s not a soup: it doesn´t need as much sauce as the pasta weighs.
Well, the point is also, you shouldn´t go to a foreign country and pretend you eat the things you eat at home, that´s quite stupid and offensive, you just should try the things they have there! (Italians abroad always behave this way, I´m sorry)
In NY I tried to have pasta because the food was expensive everywhere and I didn´t usually like it (don´t take offense but I still think American cooking is the worst in the world).
Well, just to tell you something, my neighbour has relatives in Texas, and when they came to Italy they didn´t like pizza: "ours is better". And the wurstels we use to eat in Italy, they don´t even call them wurstels but wursten, that´s the word; I mean, in Italy we just know the Frankfurter-type wurst, while "real" wursten are different and look more like sausages. I don´t like them very much, but I don´t complain and I don´t pretend that they´re not real "wurstels".
Ok. Thank u all.