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Re:How to make pizza like a Neapolitan master by pengaru on Friday April 24, 2020 @01:50PM (#22970965)
You don't understand Italian culture.

I grew up in an Italian household with both parents Italian immigrants and have a large extended Italian family.

It would have been an embarrassment to be unable to make a quality espresso.

I never drank any coffee/espresso beverages growing up and it was seen as a rejection of my family's culture, yet despite not consuming it I still was taught how to make espresso and would do it regularly for my parents.

Cuisine is a big part of Italian culture. We didn't go to restaurants because they made food better than we did at home because they were professionals, we'd go to give my mother a break and every time it was like the restaurant was on trial with my mother pointing out every damn thing that was done worse than had she made it.

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Just wanted to add that having been raised in that environment where authentic home-cooked delicious food was made every day, I can't go to Italian restaurants anymore, not in the US. It's completely ruined it. There were no professional cooks or barristas under that roof, just OG Italians.

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