/ck/ - Food & Cooking

When you think of American Italian food its hard not to think of mob movies. Sweaty mobsters shoveling pasta into their mouths, or skin greasy and slick with sweat while they cook a thick red sauce in a dingy prison or dimly lit kitchen. vulgar jokes and boasting by paunchy guys around a table. Not necessarily "evil" but uncouth, morally dubious guys.


Summertime is in full swing and the idea of Italian food makes me think of going to my friend's house and their mom cooking meals in a small kitchen, even in summer where the heat covers the kitchen and dining area in a swampy, humid aura even with doors and windows open. Big plates of pasta and meat and sauce.