Wonderful to wake up an see your work written about in Italy’s national newspaper, Corriere Della Sera. The article by journalist Elvira Serra explores our film and gets word from Ricky Tognazzi, Marcella Bella, Jerry Calà about the golden years of other dishes that were fashionable in the 80s, including Penne Alla Vodka. Super fun.

“Ricky Tognazzi calls it a “modern antiques.” And something on the subject knows, since her father of themed books had written four. In one, L’Abbuffone, had also shared the recipe for “Infurated pasta”, a variant of the dough with whipped, but seasoned with spicy vodka. A forefather, according to the Italian-American director Roberto Serrini in the documentary Disco Sauce: The Unbelievable True Story of Penne Alla Vodka, of the variants that in the 80s have raged in the kitchens of Italian restaurants and not: with cream, without cream, with ham, with tofu (this is a modern American reinterpretation), but always, strictly, with the typical aquavite obtained from cereals or potatoes. “