#53 of Forgotten Italian Classics: Panada Begamasca (Bergamo)
Someone from Bergamo told me about this soup after I shared pearà veronese. “We have our version too,” they said “just bread and water.” At first, it sounded too bare to be real, but that’s exactly what made it special. In Bergamo’s valleys, panada was the first thing put on the stove when someone was weak or recovering. Bread, water, garlic, and a bit of fat, nothing more, yet enough to comfort. It wasn’t food for showing, it was food for caring.
The full recipe with story, method, tips & tricks, and wine pairing, will be soon available on my Substack (link in bio).
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THis is about being humble and thankful for the day, for life.
Your intro line is catchy, I'll give you that. But I disagree with making pasta and pizza the boogeyman
Sopas de ajo
I've been here since you got 50 likes per video, so nice to see you grow!
Love that more traditional european cooking is promoted!
We have a German version of this in the county of Franconia 🙂 but we make it with “Gewürzbrot“. The spices like fennel and caraway seeds from the bread give the soup some more flavor and make the digestion easier. It used to be considered poor people food or something for farmers but I still like it a lot when my grandma makes it 🙂 it was also a good way to use up old bread after the war
No more that " Mamma mia " , American bs catchphrase.spammes at video ending.. YAY 😆
Finally you' re speaking as a true Italian too, not only cooking with the fired passion of one 😂🥲🥰
EDIT: I love you american-italians but chill goddamnut, Sometimes you remind less of an human person than an italian too, LuL, IN FRIENDSHIP, you remind more of a mass-producted walking cliché with 2 legs than a human being living, breathing & eating 😅
Even the best cuisines have their hicups. Its an issue when you pretend that they arent a problem tho 😂
Beautiful. This would fix me
this is a really cool one I have gotta try making
It is really a pleasure to hear an Italian guy speaking English while demonstrating Italian recipes 😂 Normally I have to watch them speak Italian and use the subtitles 😅 This is something new 😅
Congee or porridge but made from bread…
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lo mangiavo quando ero ammalato da bambino. La nonna me la faceva.
dishes like these stem from a time where resources and goods were limited and people made the most they could out of what was available. most national heritage cuisines have a similar origin.
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No con l'olio però… 🤨
Fai la pearà veronese
Mi piace tanto
Bread soup…now i feel bad at laughing at the brits for making bread sandwich
In Brescia we make "panada bresciana". It's the same thing, essentially, but you must add a couple of bay leaves while cooking the bread in the broth.
Now that is really using your loaf