I (most often) try to avoid statements that sound like "everyone will definitely like this dish!" I do not argue, it does not always work out, because food is pleasure, tasty food and pleasure from it is joy (even small), but with joy, as you know, you want to please others (even if you have to do it in a forced order).
But where am I, and where are the Italians who produce pasta (pasta in our style).
The Barilla Group organized either a meeting or a performance (digital, as is now customary) at which the professor University of Florence and President of the Italian Society of Sensory Sciences Herminio Monteleone said - pasta is what everyone likes it!
La cucina italiana wrote about it immediately. Well, how could it be otherwise? It is with us that "Russian cuisine is disgusting, foreigners faint from it", and with them, you give the aggressive campaigns of Italian cuisine to the most remote corners of the earth, and with pride.
Like, people may not eat meat, people may not eat fish, people may not like sweets - but they will never give up pasta. Like, the pasta has a sweetish taste, to which we have a predisposition from infancy, and sauces add shades to it and therefore all pasta, ramen!
According to the same professor, classic recipes such as spaghetti with tomato sauce, carbonara or linguini with pesto sauce conquer almost everyone.
And so I read that article and thought: I do not belong to the category of "almost everything", or, maybe, what other problems are with me?
When there is a choice between several options for lunch / dinner, where meat / fish and vegetables play the main roles, pasta will be, um... well, in last place. Even very high quality. Even with sauce. Even cooked according to all the rules.
I do not feel piety and do not delight in her. Yes, you can cook deliciously - but... so that any of the pasta variants would “conquer” me - no, I wouldn’t notice something like that. And I know a lot of people for whom pasta is “well, yes, pasta, no matter how you call it”, pesto is “well, yes, the sauce is kind of famous, but I’ll tell you a secret - I don’t like it”.
Moreover, I will say, I have a suspicion - the worldwide love for pasta, this is, for the most part, the merit not of the product, but of marketers. And such statements that pasta, for example, we love are "programmed."
And my question is - are there many of us who are unprogrammed?