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Originally Posted by FarrahWaters
A little off-topic, but maybe Il Pad can enlighten me about something. I've heard it's blasphemous to grate parmesan on any seafood pasta dish. Is that true?
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In Sicily and the toe and heel it is but I can't say for certain in the rest of Italy.
The reason?
Because they think you would be using the cheese to cover up the flavor of the seafood.
Italians believe that the food itself is what makes it worth eating.
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Last edited by il Padrino Ute; 07-01-2007 at 09:36 PM.
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