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Article: Room-temperature food, Italian style, is convenient, delicious. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- August 16, 1993
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When it comes to the temperature of what they eat, Americans like their hot food hot and cold food cold. But Italians aren't so fussy.
No one beats the Italians for putting out an endless variety of tantalizing dishes that achieve their ultimate intensity of flavor at room temperature. Italians even have a phrase for this kind of food, cucina fresca. Loosely translated this means ``fresh cuisine.'' But as authors Viana La Place and Evan Kleiman note in their book, ``Cucina Fresca'' (Harper & Row, $10.95), the term also means cool in temperature or room temperature.
Room-temperature foods taste better than foods that are hot or cold. Heat and cold numb our palates. And ...