Back Streets Italy: Pizza School, Fried Artichokes, Island Hopping and "Dirty" Pasta

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

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Food, Arts

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re exploring Italy’s best recipes and stories. Leah Koenig brings us inside the Roman Jewish kitchen for fried artichokes as crisp as potato chips, a cherry pie that has a secret and the beef stew that made her break vegetarianism. Plus, Katie Parla gives us a tour of Italian island cuisine, Matt Goulding infiltrates the secret society that reigns over Neapolitan pizza, Viola Buitoni reveals a surprising use for balsamic vinegar, and we make Rome’s “dirty” pasta, Rigatoni alla Zozzona.

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0:00.0	Today we're traveling across Italy to find the best recipes and the best stories.
0:13.4	Matt Golding infiltrates the secret society that reigns over Neapolitan pizza.
0:18.4	One of their bylaws is something like there may be no variance greater than 0.25 centimeters
0:23.8	from crust to the center of the pizza.
0:26.7	Plus Leah Cainick guides us through Rome's Jewish cuisine from artichokes as crispest
0:31.3	potato chips to the Shabbat dinner that made her stop being a vegetarian.
0:35.8	I looked at the table and it was covered in meat dishes and I just I literally I turned
0:39.7	to my husband and I was like it's a phrase when in Rome ever applies it's tonight I'm
0:43.3	going to eat everything and I ate everything and I'm really glad he did.
0:48.0	To start our tour of Italy we're heading to the islands with author and travel guide Katie
0:51.9	Parla.
0:52.9	Her book is Food of the Italian Islands.
0:56.5	Katie, walk in the Milk Street.
0:58.0	Thanks so much for having me Chris.
0:59.9	Okay the islands Sardinia Sicily we've heard of those.
1:05.5	How many other islands are there that you talk about in your book?
1:09.0	They're hundreds.
1:10.0	When you think about Venice there are like 120 islands.
1:13.1	Some of them are inhabited some aren't.
1:16.6	But when you go to like the coast off of Latsu you've got Ponsa and Ventoden in Palmarola
1:21.9	off the coast of Naples, Prochida, Iskia and super famous Copri.
1:26.1	And then remember Chris that those big islands you mentioned Sicily and Sardinia also have
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