This is the one cuisine I really know about, because I go to Italy to see my family every year. They're legit amazing cooks, and they were appalled at my understanding of the cuisine ten years ago. These people make their own tortellini - thousands of them - at Christmas time. We make our own pasta, they make their own cheese and liqueurs, the extended family works in parma making prosciutto (which we hand slice at home with a deli slicer) and parmesan cheese (which we illegally import back to Milan).
Not trying to be a dick, it's just something that I know about and wish other people would realize is so easy to make right. It's so easy, and it's so much better, cheaper, and healthier. And damn delicious.
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