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" If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there. "
Yotam Ottolenghi
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" Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south. "
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