> “I was always bitter that I wasn’t Italian American. You know that scene in Saturday Night Fever, where Tony Manero is eating with his family? All the yelling and the smacking? That looked good to me.”
> “We were discouraged from talking with our hands at my childhood dinner table. Voices were supposed to be maintained at a reasonable level and used for civil discourse only. Definitely no smacking. Mopping sauce with bread — getting too physically involved with your food at all — was something my mom was unlikely to approve of.”
> “So, this Italo-American Jersey classic — a riff on the Napolitano strategy for (a) turning a bunch of bony, low-quality off-cuts of meat into something delicious, and (b) stretching one thing into two courses — is a realization of all my childhood yearnings.”
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> “I was always bitter that I wasn’t Italian American. You know that scene in Saturday Night Fever, where Tony Manero is eating with his family? All the yelling and the smacking? That looked good to me.”
> “We were discouraged from talking with our hands at my childhood dinner table. Voices were supposed to be maintained at a reasonable level and used for civil discourse only. Definitely no smacking. Mopping sauce with bread — getting too physically involved with your food at all — was something my mom was unlikely to approve of.”
> “So, this Italo-American Jersey classic — a riff on the Napolitano strategy for (a) turning a bunch of bony, low-quality off-cuts of meat into something delicious, and (b) stretching one thing into two courses — is a realization of all my childhood yearnings.”
> -Chef Anthony Bourdain
I was going to post [this recipe](https://old.reddit.com/r/GifRecipes/comments/1iw7tzl/sunday_gravy_with_sausage_and_rigatoni/mebozib/) last Sunday, but u/TheLadyEve posted a [similar dish](https://redd.it/1iq4dkg) the day before and it looked scrumptious. Compare the two and remember to cherish the people you have in your life.