Top 10 cooking smells

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1. Roast vegetables with garlic, rosemary and olive oil.

2. Chicken stock.

3. Pasta aglio, olio e peperoncino.

4. Flour-and-oil roux for a gumbo.

5. Just about any Indian food.

6. Our tomato sauce.

7. Poached quinces with cloves and cinnamon.

8. Bacon.

9. Frying onions.

10. Cookies/cakes.

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  1. Love it 🙂 A few of my favourites…

    Onion & garlic being gently cooked
    Spag bol, especially after adding red wine
    Crusty toast
    Slow roasted lamb (or really, slow roasted anything)
    Kolbasi from Michael’s Deli on the barbecue

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      • Ha ha – what would Italians know about … hmmmmm. It’s also worth keeping in mind that Italians have been migrating for a long time. In New Orleans, for instance, there’s a whole school of Italian/Creole cooking. And I have been reliably informed that a sixth or seventh generation Italian from NY is pretty much from a different planet from someone from, say, Rome. In fact, I suspect that Melbourne’s high-end Italian joints are closer in spirit and application to Italy than is the case for US Italian eateries.

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