One thing during the festival is the scoop on celebrities hanging out at restaurants: good people are silent about who is going through their doors in order to get celebrities back.
After all, would you go back to a place after the owner complained to the media about what you ate and how comfortable the date was?
The Italian bistro of Yorkville, soothsozzi, does not have to say which famous names have passed the gate in the past 24 years.
Gossip columnist, celebrity selfies, and some of Drake's lyrics have done a great job lately.
But if you want to look at the receipt yourself, there are hundreds of photos
Listeners on the wall at the door of the restaurant: Brad Pitt, Michael Jordan, Janet Jackson, Gene Wilder who recently left, basically if you can imagine, they may already be there
Still, it's important to see the restaurant as a hot spot during the two weeks of the year.
Opened on 1993 (
Last year, after a fire destroyed the building on December 1, 2014, it moved several doors north)
The restaurant is still run by the original owner, Marissa Rocca, who brought many recipes from her hometown of Rome when she moved to Canada in 1989.
This is a place to look for home in an environment with comfortable Italian food
I mean, the best way.
Not as dazzling as a post
Bohemian Yorkville or stylish apartment-
Now there's TIFF in the West King block.
"Italian cooking has such a deep history that you always nod and respect tradition," Nazzareno Carlini said . " He has been working in this restaurant for 12 years (
He says he doesn't have a formal job title, but can usually see the front of the house he manages).
"You want to represent in your new country with famous dishes from the place you were born.
That means you want to represent them correctly.
This is the case with Italian culture.
You can learn about one's culture through food.
In the kitchen, executive chef Massimo Renzi, who has been cooking in soothsotto for 15 years, prepared what he called a classic dish from his hometown of Rome: cacio e pepe, meaning cheese and pepper.
This is a humble dish from the surrounding mountains, and the Shepherd will bring dry pasta, pecorino cheese and black pepper with him to stir the dish.
Just like the restaurant itself, cacio e pepe is not for flash, but for simplicity and eternity to make people-famous or not —coming back.
For centuries, the Cacio e PepeThis of sosho Sotto-
The old pasta is simple and quick-
If you know the cooking skills.
Otherwise, you will get the messy, greasy food of pasta and pasta water.
According to Renzi, the key to perfecting this is to bake the Pepper first to increase the aroma and flavor, using grated cheese to ensure uniform and rapid melting, when the pan cools slightly, melt the cheese because too much heat causes the lumps.
Some chefs use cremation padano, others use parmesan cheese, a sharper pecorino or a combination of the three (
Although pecorino is usually preferred).
Some recipes also require olive oil or butter, but if done correctly, pasta water and cheese will melt to form a velvety sauce that doesn't require anything else (
According to the salty taste of cheese, maybe some salt).
Since we are at the festival in Yorkville, Renzi likes to bring more luxury to this traditional farmer's dish by adding scraped black truffles.
A gourmet shop like caviar is directly in the Holy.
The Lawrence Market sells even Whole Foods.
200 teaspoon of 1/4 grams of dried pasta (6mL)
Full Black pepper Cup (500 mL)
Loosely packed, ground pecorinoShaved black truffles for decoration, optional salt, medium boiling water for tasteIn large Pan
High temperature, cook pasta before al dente, about 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a big frying pan
Hot, roasted pepper until fragrant, two or three minutes.
Remove the pepper from heating and crushing with mortar and pe.
Give the pepper back to the frying pan.
Transfer the pasta with Pepper to the frying pan.
Reduce the heat to the medium.
Add a spoon in 1 to 1/2 cup pasta water to finish cooking pasta.
When the pasta is dente and most of the cooking liquid has evaporated, remove the pan from the heat.
Let the pan cool for a minute or two before adding grated cheese.
Stir hard with pliers until the cheese melts and there is no hard lumps.
Taste and add salt if needed.
Divide the pasta on the plate.
If used, scrape black truffles on the pasta before serving.
Serve immediately.
4 or 2 large copies.
Karonliu @ the star