Batali vs. Bittman Pasta Saucing Smackdown: Who's Right?
Yesterday Mario Batali told us in the premiere webisode of Unclogged, Serious Eats' first video series, that when you sauce pasta, it should be "noodles with a little bit of stuff."
Today in the New York Times, Mark Bittman throws down the pasta pot gauntlet and tells us exactly the opposite. He wants us to throw tons of fresh vegetables into our pasta and throw in a little bit of meat (sausage) for flavor. His reasoning:
From the point of view of the body, there's little difference between pasta and white bread (and, for that matter, biscotti); neither has much in the way of protein, vitamins, micronutrients or fiber, and all are digested quickly and may ultimately be stored as fat.
Who's right? We're going to let the Ed Levine Eats-Serious Eats community decide after the jump.
. Johanne was kind enough to let us post one of the pasta recipes from the book. After the jump, the responses (and the recipe).
