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Whether the new cooking style is delicious, desirable or even Italian, it has fueled debate as torrid as peperoncino. Italians are proud of their traditional cuisine and are particularly roiled by the notion that some ambitious local chefs are trying to Frenchify their food. The innovators are on the march, however. The Milan-based magazine Italian Wines & Spirits has reported, with some hyperbole, that they "are gradually transforming the laws and principles of the nation's great culinary tradition ... The germs of the nuova cucina spread at the rate of a contagion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: In Search of La Nuova Cucina | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

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