Act Italian: Fare la Scarpetta 🥖

Act Italian: Fare la Scarpetta

In Naples , I ordered ragu' ( pasta with sauce) .

It was tomato-y perfection and I quickly decided that no I would not share, and inhaled it all.

The sauce , with bright parmgiano and meat  in it , was my favorite bit.

“Fare la scarpetta” translates literally to “make a little shoe.”  It refers in practice to cleaning your plate with a bit of bread.

If you want to dine like an Italian, tear off a small piece of bread and sop up all your sauce. Your finger is the leg, propelling your “little shoe” of bread along the saucy dish.

It is the closest you can come to (politely) licking your plate, and a ritual that any lover of pasta sauce should adopt.

To be honest, the scarpetta  is usually reserved for tomato sauce pastas, but If you are a rule breaker you can  enjoy the  scarpetta with many dishes ( pasta with seafood , pasta with patatoes/mushrooms......)

Buon appetito!

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