The Ultimate Penne alla Vodka

What if we've been doing it all wrong all along?

I’ve been arguing for a while now that “Italian food” is an American invention, created over decades by the immigrants that came to the US from Italy. Forced to use different ingredients and excited to use more “luxury” ingredients that were out of their budgets in Italy, their recipes evolved into Italian food. Bigger portions, more noble cuts, less ‘o…