The pesto generator is a marvelous troll tactic and handy kitchen hack all in one, but you’ve left out my favorite way to desecrate pesto: carrot tops.
This both adds an enticing bitterness and makes noble use of a kitchen scrap most would have discarded before making it out of the market.
I had the same thoughts as I was reading this. The two perspectives. I was myself battling with it, trying to figure out where I stand. And as ever so often, the answer was somewhere in the middle. It lies where we all meet, and that is in what makes us human, in what makes us feel alive, meaningful, and as part of something.
The pesto generator is a marvelous troll tactic and handy kitchen hack all in one, but you’ve left out my favorite way to desecrate pesto: carrot tops.
This both adds an enticing bitterness and makes noble use of a kitchen scrap most would have discarded before making it out of the market.
I like it. Will have to try carrot tops!
I really enjoyed your story!
You aptly play the devil's advocate for both sides: the American-Italian "foodie" and the traditionalist Italian food nazi.
I also like how you brought Nietzsche to life in Genoa as you did Hemingway when you were in Rioja.
I'm glad I signed up!
Ah, thanks for the kind words. Yes, both side can co-exist!
I had the same thoughts as I was reading this. The two perspectives. I was myself battling with it, trying to figure out where I stand. And as ever so often, the answer was somewhere in the middle. It lies where we all meet, and that is in what makes us human, in what makes us feel alive, meaningful, and as part of something.