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Mumbai Food: A four-course Italy meal on a plate
Updated On: 24 April, 2019 07:37 AM IST | Mumbai | Shunashir Sen
This four-course meal features authentic dishes from northern Italy
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Sardenaria
If Naples is the home of pizza, Modena — a city in northern Italy — is the land of handmade pasta. Be it sheets of lasagna or tortelli with a variety of stuffings, families there have perfected the art of making them for generations on end, using just dough and eggs. Not just that, but since it lies in a cold region of the country, people have also mastered different techniques of preserving meat. And when a pig is slaughtered, not a single portion goes to waste, says chef Daniela Patel, ahead of her debut pop-up where she will showcase the finest culinary traditions of her ancestral region.
"The philosophy behind Italian cuisine is to keep things as simple and healthy as possible, without compromising on taste. It can't be bland under any condition, but we don't use spices, and put in things that belong to our land, such as different kinds of herbs," Patel tells us, before revealing the menu for the lunch she will be hosting. The meal begins with sardenaria, a tomato sauce-based pizza that surprisingly has no cheese and is garnished with a single olive. The other starter is called vitello tonnato, and comprises slices of meat flavoured with a tuna sauce.
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