• Little Italy

    From JIM WELLER@1:123/140 to MICHAEL LOO on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 22:20:00

    Quoting Michael Loo to Jim Weller <=-

    Ottawa/ Centretown to Little Italy / NiCastro's on Gladstone.
    bunch of Nicastro family kids and grandkids are in related
    businesses/ a grocery store, a deli, two restaurants and a
    coffee shop. They all get good reviews.

    If the family is big enough, that'd be enough of a base
    to build a whole library of good reviews.

    They don't have to fake their own revues. They are also highly
    regarded by the two top food writers at the top two daily
    newspapers who tend to be pretty reliable.

    Edmonton / Little Italy / area is very diverse with all kinds of
    immigrant nationalities represented. The main artery bordering
    old Little Italy and adjacent Chinatown is now known as "The Avenue
    of Nations".

    Officially or colloquially?

    Officially. Edmonton is almost entirely a rectangular grid of
    numbered streets and avenues with the centre of the city's business
    district at 100th and 100th. But 107 Ave is now officially Avenue of
    Nations from 95 and 116 Streets. Like I said, it's diverse. One of
    the many restaurants there is the "Pho Huang Vietnamese Beef Noodle House/Chinese Cuisine Restaurant and Mama Pizza". They also make
    good burgers!

    The one kind I can buy at Kim's tastes of soy and sugar only.

    Which to me is fine - other flavors distract.

    The label claimed pork, sugar, soy sauce, spices and salt in that
    order but I failed to taste any spice flavours.


    Title: Chicken Chili Verde Tacos
    3 c Shredded cabbage
    1 c Fresh cilantro

    Wow.

    Yeah, I like cilantro but would never use nearly that much myself.

    I mentioned a while ago how nice a drink of 1 part guava nectar with
    2 parts sparkling lemonade was. Well that's a lovely ratio for
    all kinds of sparkling drinks. Tonight's beverage was mango nectar
    with 7-UP with a squeeze of lemon juice to moderate the sweetness.

    Another recent soft drink used was Orangina which has real juice and
    pulp in it and is both much nicer than Orange Crush but much less
    expensive than San Pellegrino.

    All these combinations take nicely to the addition of any of the clear
    spirits should one be so inclined.

    I sure miss the French bitter lemon sparkling drink with pulp called
    Gini that Pure Spring, an Ottawa based independent soft drink maker
    imported before it got rolled into Crush which is now part of the Dr
    Pepper Snapple Group which is owned by Keurig. It still made in
    France but lacks a Canadian distributor.



    Cheers

    Jim


    ... The appeal of pizza crosses all ethnic, racial, and class lines.

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