Cultural Food Review: Italian Food 

Cultural Food Review: Italian Food

Tonight I ate at the restaraunt Joe Mommas (no relation to previous blog). This restaurant was awarded the Best Italian Food by Pitt News, The University of Pittsburgh Newspaper, for 2002. Here I will rate the food of the Italian culture, and through implication, the entire culture, itself.

First of all, this is going to be quite biased. I haven't had real food here for about 2 months. Plus I had not eaten since about 12:30 this afternoon, and I got dinner there around 11:30 at night. That tends to make any food taste pretty good.

I ordered lasagna. I consider myself a lasagna afficionado. I've sampled lasagna from everywhere from Epcot to Niagara Falls. Sure, that's only one side the North American Continent, but it's closer to Italy than anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere; and as we all know, food gets better the closer one approaches its origin. As a result, I've sampled the best version of Italian food without going to Europe. Anyway, the lasagna at Joe Mommas was pretty average. Sorry, but I've had better. However, since we ate there after eleven, the food was half price. Bonus points must be awarded for such an offer. The lasagna gets 8 bay leaves out of 10.

The ranking of Italy's culture deserves to be higher though. I know, I know, the whole idea behind this is that I judge and entire culture from one food. But Italy is a country based on food. How can one type of food determing the ranking for all of it? I mean think about it, Italy invented the the SoC of Caesar salad (see previous entry about its origin), pizza, and pasta in general. Plus, Latin was once spoken there. That's like a zajillion bonus points in itself. So I think Italy deserves 9 benes out of 10.