[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by saphojunkie

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.

This is fascinating to me. I'm getting into curing meat, and on deck is a pancetta from a locally sourced belly. I'm also planning to take a half ham, cure it, and hang it for a year for homemade prosciutto.