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Italy is a country famous for its very old food traditions, with many of its classic recipes having been around for hundreds (if not thousands) of years. However, that’s not to say that the Boot isn’t prone to food trends and fads, just like everywhere else!
Today, Eva’s introducing me to some recipes that were enormously popular in Italy during the 1980s. These dishes may have fallen out of favor in recent decades, but perhaps we can find some fads that are worth reviving.
Or maybe it will just be a puzzling nightmare of outdated taste, we’ll see…
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STRAWBERRY & CHAMPAGNE RISOTTO RECIPE – https://www.pastagrammar.com/post/strawberry-champagne-risotto-a-surprising-elegant-italian-recipe
VITELLO TONNATO RECIPE – https://www.pastagrammar.com/post/vitello-tonnato-recipe-how-to-make-piedmontese-veal
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00:00 – Italian Food of the 1980s
04:01 – An Elegant Risotto
06:37 – Tasting Strawberry & Champagne Risotto
10:22 – A Fancy French-Inspired Dish
12:57 – Tasting Vitello Tonnato
16:02 – A Creative Party Food
17:57 – Tasting Pesce Finto
22:45 – Pasta Grammarian in Action!
#italianfood #1980s
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Strawberries and Champagne are a classic combination, the strawberry highlights the flavor of the Champagne, maybe that is why they use it in the dish.
I really don’t understand Harpers comments on the appearance of Vitello Tonnato and his opinion that it looks ‘fancy’; what about the appearance of the Venetian dish, Carpaccio di Manzo which had a strong resemblance to the veal dish, unless, of course he considers that dish to be ‘fancy’. I must admit that I rise to the defence of this dish as I have been eating it since I first tasted it in Milano in the ‘70’s and have always found it very tasty if a little delicate; and I also think it would ruin it if put between bread slices; however each to his own.
now, that fish is the most famous pineapple-fish? (like the mostacciolo pineapple-fish I've made).
Vitello Tonnato tastes excellent, you just don't like Northern Italians. 😈
I've had this where the meat is sliced and then let to sit covered in sauce for some hours. In which case it is an actually quite delicious dish…
Too bad you didn't cover maccheroncini al fumè. It's super 80s, it's still a thing in Italy (or at least in Marche) and I believe that Americans would love them.
Eva sounds like if Babu Frik were Italian. Respectfully. With love.
Last time I had vitel tonné was back in the 80s! 😂
Let's say you could have put a little bit more of sauce…
Vitel Toné is A MUST in Argentinian christmass!
I lived in Florence in the 80s! The Disco Days!!! Everything was glamorous. A fancy dinner that I recall was Squab and my date had Steak Tartara.
I'm from '64 so a major part of my life was influenced by the 80's and I must say that that the looks of the dishes resembles the look of the humans in those days. I do have a challenge for Eva though for a future video.: take the ingredients from each dish and create an 'in campagna' recipe from them that fits this era.
This account is truly FAKE
Vitel tone is eaten in Argentina and Uruguay for Christmas
Women started working
The 80s were truly wild in Italy
If you want a soundtrack to go with this 80s throwback, you might consider finding these songs:
Sará perche ti amo – Gloria- Vamos a la Playa – Comprami – Noi Ragazzi do Oggi – Tutta la Vita- se t’amo t’amo- Bella Signora- Boys boys boys- top off with mamma maria e Felicità. Chin chin.
Sophia Loren , Isabella Roseliiini don't have an accent like Eva's
That is ABSOLUTELY NOT the way to make vitel tune', which a very ancient piemontese dish!!!!
As a lover of mayo-based salad (and hater of potatoes, sorry), it's a kind of stupid thing that mayo salads are called salads. A salad is a bunch of fresh vegetables; a mayo salad is stuff mixed with mayo. They're not even remotely similar. If I ate a garden salad and a pasta salad, for example, nobody would think that I was eating two salads. The thing that joins them is that they're both cold and usually contain a mix of stuff. But if those two salads are in the same category, then the category is not very useful!
Vitello Tonnato is still decently popular, to this day in restaurant, in supermarkets and at home (as in home cooking). Pasta with Vodka, afaik, was a staple of 80's. I used to eat in Senigallia, in the Marche region, until early 00's.
My mother is a creative cook, until not many years ago she used, for a brief time, to do Risotto with Kiwis. Tbh, you can do risotto with pratically everything. I think fruit can be used in savory plates. You can out apples in salad for examples
OK am I weird? Because these all look pretty normal and even delicious (except the risotto that's just strange). Or maybe I'm old? Also that music transported me to my childhood I need to ask my parents if they were listening to italian pop in Colombia back in the day (come think of it, I do remember my whole family watching San Remo every year growing up)
Nowadays Vitello Tonnato is mostly done win mayonaisse but originally it was done with cream
OMG! 80's flashback! I had vitello tonnato the year I lived in Italy (high school exchange program). I haven't thought about that dish in decades! Watching this brought it all back. From an 80s US teenager's perspective who had never had it before, it tasted like under-seasoned, cold, tough meat with a dollop of white sauce that smelled like tuna. It was an unusual taste and texture combination. Not bad, not great, just unremarkable. Now I want to make it for nostalgia!
You forgot cocktail di gamberi 😂
What's the title of the first song, the one they used for the Parmigiano Reggiano commercials????