Showing posts with label pasta con le fave secche. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pasta con le fave secche. Show all posts

Saturday, May 31, 2025


 More fava beans. This is the real and original pasta con le fave secche o  pasta 'cu maccu. In Sicily the fava's cooked in this matter are called maccu. This probably the queen of cucina povera or poor cuisine. The irony in this is that the poor actually ate more nutricious and healthy dishes than the rich who ate all sorts of fattening foods. At any rate this is a super simple and economical dish that provides needed proteins. It's my favorite meal.

  The old and the new. Manhattan lower west side shot from the High Line.