Growing up in The Netherlands as the son of a potato farmer, I ate pasta for the first time at 16. In Europe, pasta is considered to originate from Italy. Only later I found out the Italians got the idea from the East. For me, it’s hard to regard potato noodles as noodles. Potatoes are… not dough! 😁 And pasta is not made of potatoes. And noodles are always pasta. At least all the noodles I have ever encountered. But I guess it’s just how you name it.
Also it’s funny for me to see how ‘brown’ butter can be sort of new to others. For me it once was the other way around. In Northern Europe, or at least in The Netherlands, we used to bake everything in butter (or margarine). Not oil. Oil was something new to me that I only gradually started using the last 25 years. Now I use it for everything, except meat.
Growing up in The Netherlands as the son of a potato farmer, I ate pasta for the first time at 16. In Europe, pasta is considered to originate from Italy. Only later I found out the Italians got the idea from the East. For me, it’s hard to regard potato noodles as noodles. Potatoes are… not dough! 😁 And pasta is not made of potatoes. And noodles are always pasta. At least all the noodles I have ever encountered. But I guess it’s just how you name it.
Also it’s funny for me to see how ‘brown’ butter can be sort of new to others. For me it once was the other way around. In Northern Europe, or at least in The Netherlands, we used to bake everything in butter (or margarine). Not oil. Oil was something new to me that I only gradually started using the last 25 years. Now I use it for everything, except meat.