426. Piselli col Prosciutto

Peas with Ham

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

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Let’s leave to the English the taste for eating boiled vegetables without any seasoning, or at the most with a little butter; we southern types need our food to be a little more exciting.

I have never found peas anywhere as good as the ones they serve in the restaurants of Rome, not so much on account of the excellent quality of the vegetables from that part of the country, but because in Rome they flavor peas with smoked ham. Having experimented a bit trying to discover how they pr

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