Mario: how to sauce pasta

on Jan 16th, 2008Mario: how to sauce pasta

When I wrote about pasta portions and the American penchant for huge portions, I mentioned a man I met in Italy who took all Americans to task — actually, he called us barbarians — for oversaucing our pasta. He was right, we do.

Who better to explain the proper way than Mario Batali, in a video from Serious Eats? He says we overdress our pasta 99.9% of the time and implies we also overcook it.

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4 Responses to “Mario: how to sauce pasta”

# Richardon 16 Jan 2008 at 3:26 pm

I agree completely with you and Mario on oversaucing pasta. When I cook pasta for others (Americans), I’m always accused of undersaucing.
# ellaellaon 16 Jan 2008 at 4:52 pm

Tell ‘em Molto said so! I do love his line about pasta and a little “stuff.”
# raincoasteron 16 Jan 2008 at 8:03 pm

Fifteen years ago I saw some Italian woman on PBS and I’ll always remember what she said:

“In Italy, we have pasta with-a sauce, not sauce with-a pasta!”
# ellaellaon 16 Jan 2008 at 8:30 pm

No wonder you remember it — I will too.

America: Land of wretched excess because we can.