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I'm Roman and carbonara is a Roman dish... and there are some dishes that shouldn't be interpreted like a fucking dog, they're simply made like this, then if someone likes certain modifications, let them make them, but don't call that dish " the carbonara"... is something else altogether.It's likely a regional thing. I have friends in Louisiana that think Italian cuisine is a bowl of microwaved spaghetti-o's... no shit. If I attempt to explain how to properly prepare a simple but very specific dish, carbonara for example, their fucking eyes start to glaze over. But then again, those same buds have given me spectacular recipes for some cajun dishes that are fucking 100% authentic. So, I'm betting that sausage w/ sweet peppers on a hotdog bun is a regional thing calling it Italian.
Italians get so bent out of shape so fast when their cuisine gets discussed even 1% out of tolerance. Mention putting garlic in the above carbonara and and it's like the apocalypse raining down.
I'm not saying you don't eat a plate of sausage and peppers, I'm saying it's not a typically Italian dish, then tomorrow I'm hungry, I have that in the pantry, and I'll cook that's all.
cooking is beautiful because it varies, you can do anything... it's also the only "discipline" that often writes "just enough" in the ingredients, while pastry is never by eye it's weighed by the gram.
if someone misunderstood my words, I apologize, English is not my mother tongue, so I often can't explain myself...
let's put it like this:
all food is good, but not all good food is Italian.
