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Article: A Basil Bonanza // It's the Classic Ingredient in Pesto
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 30, 1992
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One of the turning points in American eating was the revelation
that spaghetti sauce does not have to be red. The idea that you
could put something on spaghetti - the term pasta had not yet emerged
- other than tomato sauce came as a delicious surprise. The change
came with the discovery of pesto. The term pasta followed soon
thereafter.
Pesto is an Italian compound of basil, olive oil, garlic, grated
cheese and finely ground pine nuts. The result is a dark green color
of the sort found on British racing cars. The taste is equally
green, like swallowing a rain forest. Consumers of pesto fall into
three camps: users, abusers and worshippers. Unlike zucchini, it has
no known enemies.
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