[Sca-cooks] White Pizza- OOP

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jan 27, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Nick Sasso wrote:

> Oddly enough, it is likely the arduous labor costs of manning a small
> restaurant with an added 'skill' guy to make this sort of a la  
> minute dish
> servable to many people.  Smaller places around the country had to  
> come up
> with something that didn't require the skill and time for that sort  
> of thing
> to work . . . can't have a generic $10 kitchen manager direct the  
> traffic to
> get that sort of finesse dish out in time to avoid the inevitable  
> glue ball.
> A horrible trade-off, but one that people started accepting.

I can see doing that in a restaurant setting. In fact, when it was my  
job to make "Caesar Salad Dressing" two quarts or more at a time (and  
serve it), I was very good at it, if I say so myself. But it's just  
not the same, and I'm a little bothered by the blurring of the tactics  
some people employ out of necessary expedience, with the norm, and in  
fact the only way anybody knows; this is the death of soul food in all  
forms.

I also think Americans have been conditioned to accept the concept of  
"sauce" as something that invariably goes with pasta, and not as a  
potential ingredient in a pasta dish; that pasta can be a meal if you  
only had some sauce. Probably a comment on the quality of the pasta  
we're eating...

Adamantius