Letter of the Week

In response to our earlier review of Terra Rosa, entitled “Anatomy of a Check,” Big Vinnie writes:

Dear ELV,

There ain’t a Tally in Vegas who can cook Tally food. They are all “covonnes”. They use cheap ingredients and up the price. If Terra Rossa was in New York, they would be closed by now, let alone, fire bombed. Nora’s is another poor excuse for Tally food. Especially, when Mexicans are making it. Gimme a break. Same goes for pizza. It stinks. Non Italian’s eat at these slop joints. They don’t know any better.

Signed,

Big Vinnie

ELV responds:

Dear Big Vinnie,

A great food writer (we think it was us) once wrote: “The only difference between Italian food in New York and Italian food in Los Angeles is that in one, your meal is being cooked by overworked and underpaid Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, and in the other, it’s being prepared by overworked and underpaid Mexicans and Salvadorans.”

You find me an Italian kitchen in America staffed by Italians, and I’ll bet you ten Benjamins you’re in Rome (Italy, not Georgia).

Buon gusto!

ELV

5 thoughts on “Letter of the Week

  1. You’re on :-). My favorite local Italian restaurant, Lazio, is staffed by the chef-owner Adriano DiMario from just outside of Rome. That said, your point remains generally valid.

  2. Big Vinnie, you are stupid or what, Food goes nationalities, It´s just PEOPLE making their job to please you, Stupid

  3. Tally, hilarious.. I have never heard Italian called Tally.. and I’m Italian American.. I’m researching Mr. Sconzo’s favorite though..but still looking for somewhere that reminds me of Grandma’s..

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