{"id":1984,"date":"2010-08-31T22:41:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T04:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2010-10-08T16:57:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T22:57:53","slug":"tutto-quello-che-vedete-lo-devo-agli-spaghetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=1984","title":{"rendered":"“Tutto quello che vedete, lo devo agli spaghetti”*"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"rss\"<\/a>

<\/a><\/a><\/a>You’ve\u00a0got to hand it to the Italians, they have it\u00a0spot on\u00a0when it comes to food; and they’re usually a step ahead of everyone else.\u00a0 \u00a0The slow food movement?\u00a0\u00a0They never got the memo about eating faster.\u00a0 Locavore?\u00a0 They are\u00a0so commited to local food, that even after they’ve moved halfway around the world they only eat stuff grown within 50 miles of the house they were born in!<\/p>\n

This summer we had the chance to\u00a0get to know\u00a0one of the most interesting (and most Italian) chefs around, Salvatore di Scala.\u00a0 Salvatore, a part time resident of Madison (and Tony Soprano’s twin), held a special dinner at his friend Vincenzo’s restaurant, Cafe Porta Alba<\/a>.\u00a0 Avid readers of the blog\u00a0(I know you’re out there) will know that Leslie, crazy musical polyglot that she is, occasionally sings Neapolitan music at CPA (with the great Bill and Colleen on mandolin and guitar), and\u00a0she was asked to sing at this\u00a0dinner.\u00a0 We were going to be out of town but it sounded so fun we rearranged our schedule a little so we could make it.<\/p>\n

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I’ve reproduced the menu below.\u00a0\u00a0I don’t think I need to even say anything.\u00a0 Between the pictures and the menu, you get the idea.\u00a0 And no translation, babelfish<\/a> it yourself!<\/p>\n

L’Antipasti<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fichi e Prosciutto<\/p>\n

Scammorza alla Brace<\/p>\n

Pere al Parmigiano<\/p>\n

Un petalo di Margherita<\/p>\n

O Primmo Piatto<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paccheri alla donna Anna<\/p>\n

E Siconde Piatte<\/strong><\/p>\n

Polli al due Sapori<\/p>\n

Pollo alla Sorrentina<\/p>\n

Pollo alla Amalfitana<\/p>\n

E Contorni<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Carote alla Ischitana<\/p>\n

Peperoni alla Carrettiera<\/p>\n

O’Dolce<\/strong><\/p>\n

Torta al Trionfo di Frutta<\/p>\n

So, what\u00a0was my favorite part of the night?\u00a0 I’ll say the Pollo alla Amalfitana (pictured above, lower left) was my favorite dish, indeed it was one of my favorite chicken dishes ever.\u00a0 But it wasn’t my favorite part of the night.\u00a0 I also really enjoyed the old people sneaking out after 3 courses (and 4 hours) when they\u00a0just couldn’t\u00a0eat any more.\u00a0 But that wasn’t my favorite part either.\u00a0\u00a0We also sat with a lovely couple who were great dinner companions\u00a0(Ciao R & R!). And Leslie sang, of course, which was a treat for everyone.\u00a0 There was so much to choose from.\u00a0\u00a0But my favorite thing about that dinner was how comfortable Sal (and Vincenzo and the CPA crew) made it.\u00a0 It felt just\u00a0like having dinner with your Italian family.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

We have been lucky enough to see Sal several times this summer.\u00a0 I’ve noticed that when he’s there, our average stay at CPA is over 6.5 hours<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 I’ve also noticed that I’m getting used to this and now a 3 hour meal there seems…rushed.<\/p>\n

Sal, I hope your reading this.\u00a0 You’ve given us a very memorable summer, and we hope it’s not too long till we see you again.<\/p>\n

*quote is Sophia Loren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve\u00a0got to hand it to the Italians, they have it\u00a0spot on\u00a0when it comes to food; and they’re usually a step ahead of everyone else.\u00a0 \u00a0The slow food movement?\u00a0\u00a0They never got the memo about eating faster.\u00a0 Locavore?\u00a0 They are\u00a0so commited to local food, that even after they’ve moved halfway around the world they only eat stuff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,8],"tags":[61,37,160,62],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-restaurants","tag-cafe-porta-alba","tag-italian","tag-pasta","tag-pizza","no-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}