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Origin
Veneto
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Description
Venice's quintessential pasta — thick, whole-wheat spaghetti-like pasta extruded through a bigolaro press, dressed with a sauce of sweet onions caramelised for 45 minutes until almost dissolved and then melted with anchovy fillets off heat. The onion-anchovy sauce is not cooked together but combined at the last moment — the anchovy melts in the residual heat of the onions to preserve its freshness. Traditionally a 'magro' (meatless) dish eaten on Ash Wednesday and Christmas Eve.
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The Thread
—Anchovy as a dissolving, seasoning sauce element — same off-heat anchovy dissolution technique to prevent bitterness Ligurian
—Deeply caramelised onions with anchovy as the flavour pairing — the same sweet-savoury onion-fish combination in tart form French
—Anchovy dissolved in olive oil as a pasta sauce — the Roman version without the caramelised onion component Roman
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Flavour Context
Sweet and savoury simultaneously; the caramelised onions have almost no sharpness left; anchovy adds deep umami; the whole-wheat bigoli gives bitterness and chew — a dish of complete, profound simplicity
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