Jamie Oliver's Lasagna Fail: A Brutally Honest Reaction to a Disastrous Recipe! 

One pot Lasagna? Isn't that called hamburger helper 🤣

Now he makes Italian ancestor crying

Jamie is a fraud, I told you before my friend. He's a crafty salesman though, selling himself first and then everything in his slipstream; overpriced restaurants, cookware, bbq stuff, microwave meals and lets not forget his traditional Green Pesto recreated by Jamie Oliver and made with the finest Italian ingredients like: Basil (38%), extra virgin olive oil (18%), sunflower oil, CASHEW NUTS, Grana Padano CHEESE PDO (MILK) (6.9%), PINE NUTS (4%), Pecorino CHEESE PDO (MILK), garlic, sugar, sea salt, acidity regulator: lactic acid, antioxidant: ascorbic acid.

My wife, RIP, used to ask me, "....what type of slop is this..." ? That was one of those humorous husband/wife banter comments. But Really Jamie, what type of slop is this? NO Way in Hell is that a Lasagna, it's a Green Vegetable Casserole at best.

I’m right with you except he has never inspired me in any way. You on the other hand @vincenzosplate have inspired me!!!

In one pan!!!

I'm not the best cook but even I can make a better lasagna than Jamie Oliver. Heck, I'd eat Olive Garden lasagna before Jamie's.

176 ingredients...but it needs to be in ONE pan.

Did you try it or you just claim to “know”? Ridiculous

​​@@jackapps2126I mean it isn't hard to tell that it isn't a lasagna and while it may taste fine it's again not a lasagna. Also based on what we see he doesn't really add a lot of actual flavor into it.

Haha! 😂 That's quite the vivid description! Let's hope his culinary journey takes a turn for the better and stops causing ancestral tears. 👨‍🍳😅🇮🇹

@@vincenzosplate ...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And just like a car crash he as many Rubberneck followers hahaha.

Haiyaa, his egg fried rice make my ancestor cry. Why he use chilli jam? Why? Everyone know egg fried rice is just 3 ingredients - egg, fried and rice. Don’t forget to use MSG in everything - it the king of flavour.

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For the bread, you can use buns, this time I'm going to use a sliced baguette.

Forgot the leek

"You can add tomato and pickle slices, but in this case I'm adding pineapple and garlic slices".

Jamie's unique culinary choices have indeed united ancestors from different cuisines in disbelief! 🍝🍚 Let's hope for tastier recipes in the future! 🙏😄

He f**ked up steak, he f**k up Italian cuisine, he f**k up Asian cuisine, he f**k up Japanese cuisine, what else he is gonna f**k up?

it's the same pain that every Greek felt when he added dill in the Greek salad...

​@@vincenzosplate when your grandparents say that english food is horrible compared to others, they were talking about Jamie.

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Even as a lover of mashed dishes, this is a lasagna disaster! 🙅‍♂️🍝 Italians would be shaking their heads in disbelief! 😂🇮🇹

Have you had hutspot?

​@@TheBlueberryymuffinHutspot with rookworst and mustard is amazing

@@supersquat never had it with mustard, is that traditional?

@@TheBlueberryymuffin it depends on who you ask. Some people like it with mustard, and some don't. Gravy is very traditional though. I like to put some mustard on the rookworst at the end.

Tell me about it! 🙈 The ingredient list was a marathon, not a sprint! 😂 But hey, at least cleaning up is a breeze in comparison! 🍝🧽 Thanks for sharing your thoughts! 🇮🇹👨‍🍳😅

By trying to simplify, he complicated the dish 😂

Not a dish. Garbage.@@Mrparadox08

This is what creativity in cooking means! Using eggplants instead of meat is a great idea, but these “chefs” seems the don’t understand

and lasgna with eggplants is absoulutely amazing, this just looks terrible

I have an amateurish video of my eggplant lasagna on my amateurish channel. I just replaced meat with eggplants in my tomato sauce, and cooked a regular lasagna, without adding a bunch of wtf ingredients. I do use both cheddar and parmiggiano in it, so Vincenzo might still get upset :)

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"bad drunken British 'chef' fake lasagna diarrhea"

You have a point! 🤔 "Lazy lasagna" might be a more fitting title for this concoction. Sometimes, the authenticity of a dish is essential. Let's hope for more genuine Italian flavors in the future. 🇮🇹👨‍🍳😄

Lazy lasagna would be using boxed lasgana sheets, pre made tomato sauce from a jar and pre shredded cheese from a bag. This is just a pasta casserole gone wrong.

There are two different problems, which we should keep separate. 1. What Jamie Oliver made is clearly not lasagna. We did not even need Vincenzo to explain why not -- this dish does not faintly resemble lasagna. (What if Uncle Roger threw some torn up lasagna noodles into his egg fried rice? Could he say, "Hiya, now I have made lasagna!"??? 2. It is disgusting. The flavors, as Vincenzo pointed out, are just not harmonious. Milk, mustard, pesto, and mint??? Really? (Not to mention the cheddar and parmaggiano, and the almonds.) All of those flavors are good, but come on, they just don't go together.

@@knighterrant5772 i mean combining cheddar and parmaggiano is pretty common in america but yeah besides that the flavors make no sense

Who’s Jack?

Nothing healthy about butter and loads of cheddar 😅

Ah, Jamie, the king of quick and healthy recipes! 👑💡 Sometimes it's all about that balance between creativity and what the audience wants. 😅🍏

@@jman9838 no, go eat sugar then

He is just phoning it in now and churning out crap.

Well a vaneer of healthiness

Thanks a million for the support! 🙌 I'm just here to keep it real, and Jamie's creations do leave us scratching our heads sometimes! 😂 Stay tuned for more entertaining critiques! 🍽️👨‍🍳🤣

Same here. He has a nice presentation. But I really am not a fan of him overdoing the dish with strong spices. Or simply making existing dishes too weird.

Someone needs to offend Jamie Oliver back to fish and chips.

😂😂😂 thought it was just me hating on him.

Fully agree with you my friend 👏🏻👏🏻

I don't know what it is, porridge or soup or something else for which the English language doesn't have a word yet. The Dutch language does: prutje. Which means everything smashed together.

​@@fransbuijs808slop

Back in the day my Grandma would have called this a casserole gone haywire - with real haywire. Hard to chew and hard to swallow.

@@fransbuijs808We call it a concoction in Scotland.

Your version with zucchini sounds delicious and actually resembles lasagna! 🤤 Jamie's "lasagna" is a casserole gone wrong! 😂🍝

A very sad salad though 😅

I love salad, don't disgrace salad by calling this stuff salad

Salads are edible

The word sad is in salad

Hot Salad! Gotcha Hot Salad Here!

It’s ok- in common with most bottled pesto, Jamie’s pesto is mostly cashew nuts and sunflower oil.

It's like he can't figure out what recipe he wanted to make. Is this a Pesto Lasagna? Is this a white lasagna? Who knows? He certainly doesn't.

Simply put: he's not a cook, he's a butcher with a bare minimum ability to cook water, nothing more. And even water he can cook it bad

It's quite interesting how British chefs sometimes incorporate peas into dishes where they might not traditionally belong! 😄 Peas do have their place in various cuisines, but as you mentioned, it can be a bit of an unexpected addition in Italian dishes. Culinary creativity knows no bounds! 🍝🇮🇹😂

Cheap and adds good fibre 🙂

Spaghetti with peas is great though

@@lillexus5589 yeah I don't have a problem with peas, it's just weird to me that I've seen several videos of Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, and others adding them to recipes where they don't really belong traditionally, like stir fries and pasta. They seem to be the favourite veg of England, which I don't really get

@@lillexus5589 I cannot think of many starters or main meals that would be ruined by adding garden peas tbh. They go with just about every cuisine you can think of, from Chinese to Irish.

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Yes my friend, I was absolutely disappointed, so sad to watch Jamie making such a bad recipe!

He is annoying as heck

He got emotional damage

There's also something to be said for cooking stuff together in a single pot. Still takes time. In those one-pot-recipes usually quite a bit.

I agree, I'm also from México and Jamie always makes a mess when he tries to make a Mexican dish.

I'm a Mexican chef and I can say that this is very true.

Like their disgusting bangers and mash

Do you know a RU-vid channel that has good Mexican food?

Don't let Jamie close to our beloved Mexican food.

Our grandmas always did the best recipes ❤

There is "Dried Soya Granulat" out there wich makes a Decent Vegan Filler for this Kind of Dish...🤷

​@@vincenzosplateI like to make a roast vegetable lasagne using spinach pasta and topped with a 'bechamel' that's half ricotta, and crumbled feta on top. May not be traditional but the slightly sharp / fresh taste pairs off well with the rich slightly sweet vegetables.

Totally get what you're saying! 🤣 Jamie's been on quite the culinary journey. 🍝🥗 This "lasagna" had us scratching our heads too! 🤨👨‍🍳 Thanks for sharing your thoughts! 🇮🇹👌

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Haha, it seems Jamie Oliver's cooking can inspire different reactions! Sometimes, ordering from a restaurant is the way to go when culinary adventures take an unexpected turn. Here's to enjoying delicious meals, whether cooked at home or ordered in! 🍽️😄

@@vincenzosplate Jaime is an inspiration for all potential future chefs. You first watch what Jaime does, question every decision he makes. Then watch reaction videos to validate if professional chefs agree with what you had identified as a questionable. Improve yourself as a chef by learning what NOT to do!

Hahahaha, word.

He's a better cook than you can ever hope to be.

@@daanamelink7148 how would you know?

Haha! 😂 Glad you had a good laugh! 🙌 Jamie's English mustard surprise is one for the books! 🇬🇧🍝

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It's understandable that you have a sense of disappointment, especially when you've seen Jamie's earlier work and his collaborations with chefs like Gennaro. The evolution of a chef's style and approach can sometimes take unexpected turns, and not all experiments are successful. It's a testament to the importance of staying true to culinary roots and expertise. 🍕👨‍🍳

He's collapsed under the gravity of his own ego. He thinks because he is who he is that he can just declare anything to be so and it is whilst completely ignoring tradition and common sense. You can see it in the way he talks about cheap foods and the way he tries to politically interfere here in the UK. For example the sugar tax, man couldn't possibly come up with an initiative to make healthy food cheaper. No, it had to be one that made the food that poverty stricken families rely on more expensive. I used to like Jamie Oliver but he's just insufferable

​@@benammiswifttbh, poor families should be priced out of poor nutritional options, especially when frozen veg is from £1 a bag. Same as the sugar tax. As for his political activism, he's campaigned for nutritious school dinners. You actually got a problem with that?

@@philwill0123 Yes. I was at school after he did he interfering. The snacks were literally like, Pizza, Bacon Cheese Tomato Bagels, Paninis the same and you could buy as much as you wanted. They were always dripping with grease. there was also no limit of how much you could buy. I'm not entirely sure how that equates to Jamie's new health eating / nutrition campaign. He also just absolutely slaughters cuisines however he sees fit now and he does these "3 ingredient" recipes or whatever which is an incredible half truth when he does stuff like adding premade canned soup. It's then not at all 4 ingredients. I just don't like that he pisses around with food that means stuff to people, whether it be cheap food keeping poverty stricken families alive or dearly loved cuisines from people's country and he does it as he feels like with no respect for what anyone but himself feels

​@@philwill0123imagine saying "poor families should be priced out of poor nutritional value foods" You're a psycho.

You nailed it! 🙌🍝 That's the classic lasagna recipe, and I take it very seriously! Anything else is a culinary twist! 😄🇮🇹

I'm truly honored to have inspired your love for Italian cooking! 🇮🇹 It's all about sharing the passion for delicious, authentic dishes. If you ever need recipes or cooking tips, feel free to reach out. Grazie mille! 🍝👨‍🍳

A lot of his early recipes were actually genuinely tasty. It's when he got it into his head he's some expert of world cuisine / jumped on the 'healthier version of everything' bandwagon that shit went downhill. Unfortunately that's all he's been doing for the past several years and is getting deserved stick for it.

I have learnt how to cook authentic Bolognese from Jamie's website back in 2011. It truly is saddening to see him go down this path and I hope he gets back on track.

You're absolutely spot on! Italian cuisine thrives on simplicity and quality, and Jamie's approach, well, let's just say it's quite the spectacle! 🇮🇹😄

@@vincenzosplate Hi Please do a spot with the pasta queen.

Baked ziti is like Lasagna's cool cousin! 😄🍝 Still delicious and comforting. Keep up the Italian-inspired creations! 👨‍🍳

Yeah, maybe he was trying to clear his fridge with this recipe 😅

Hahaha omg this is so accurate my friend 😂 I laughed a lot!!

My only issue with that comment was what does Vincenzo have against the poor dogs. My dog would take one sniff of this and walk away! 😂

​@@torrick00one sniff and got diarrhoea 😂

Feeding this to dogs would be animal cruelty

I’m sorry. I stopped after he added the pasta. That looks nasty. I wouldn’t eat it, or make it. 🤷

Haha, it seems Jamie Oliver's culinary experiments can have quite the appetite-suppressing effect! 😄 Let's hope for more appetite-pleasing recipes in the future! 🍽️😅

yoninovkolodny - Ah, the old Jamie Oliver diet. Better than Keto.

The Jamie Oliver school of weight loss

Oh cry me a freakin river. Why don't you lay down for a bit until your hysteria passes?

@@vincenzosplate Jamie's diet food. Best way to kill an appetite. Sad, because he has made some good dishes, but I think he's trying too hard to be relevant by sacrificing authenticity and integrity.. IMHO

It's true that Jamie has ventured into many culinary territories, and this time, it seems even Italian cuisine couldn't escape his unique approach. Let's hope he can mend any broken culinary hearts and get back to the kitchen traditions we all love! 🇮🇹🍝

Oh, the horror! 😂 Ripping lasagna sheets and adding mustard? That's a recipe for chaos, not lasagna! 🙈 Let's stick to the Italian classics, shall we? 🇮🇹🍝👍

in sweden we can buy a mix with Spice and some type of dried pasta( kindof shredded lasagne sheets) but atleast package says "lasagnette"

It looks like a half burnt mess. Not good

I screamed irl when he ripped those sheets

It reminds me of when he made his disastrous ramen and added tofu by just tearing apart a block of tofu rather than cut it into nice cubes.

Its the other way around 😂

I think that he is trying to be more "relatable" like things you might have in your freezer, (maybe more like in the uk) make cooking easy for them, but he is calling these recipes like if they were the original thing with a little variation, which they are not. I think the concept of getting regional ingridients instead of the originals its interesting as some of them are hard to find or really expensive (where i live it's really hard to find mozzarella made with buffalo milk for example, or just real mozzarella) but he just destroy every recipe lol maybe they taste good... but nothing like the original thing

Gordon clearly loves cooking and does appear as if he is looking to refine his craft. But that is how you become the best in your field.

Creative people of all sorts eventually run out of ideas, typically when they reach a certain level of success. Hunger is a great motivator for a young starving artist, but then he gets rich and that motivator is gone. This is why great bands that are together for too long eventually start to suck; it's hard to be "metal" when you're living in a lakeside mansion with a wife and three kids and a yacht. Now, for a musician, this isn't that big a deal. You can coast on what you've already created; people will still pay good money to see you perform your older songs, which they still love. They'll still watch your music videos on RU-vid for a little residual income. And it's been proven by science that as people grow older, they don't really enjoy listening to new music anymore. Put out a few great albums, and you've got fans for life who will continue to support you forever. Food is different. People are always interested in new food experiences. Maybe not new cuisines, but at least a little twist on an old favorite. Also, unlike music, once you know how to make Gordon's beef Wellington, you don't need to keep watching videos of Gordon making beef Wellington to enjoy it. So, big-time celebrity chefs like Jamie and Gordon have to keep cranking out new content, new ideas, if they want to keep generating those views and making that money. And sometimes... those new ideas are bad. I think guys like Vincenzo are in a good position for the long term. He mixes showing you how to make classic Italian dishes the proper way with reacting to other people trying to put new twists on those dishes. And he's pretty open-minded about people experimenting with his beloved Italian cuisine. One thing I see him saying a lot in his reaction videos is, basically, "Well, that's not traditional, but it looks pretty good; I'd give it a try." He didn't do that here, though, and for good reason. This is not lasagna; this is a creamy British vegetable stew with an odd flavor profile that just happens to have a few lasagna sheets thrown in. Vincenzo is right to feel insulted by Jamie calling it lasagna.

@@santiagooehler Man get outta here, no one thinks for a second one pan veggie lasagna is anything like the 'original'. I hate when people get so anal about sticking to tradition or 'how it should be made', just imagine gatekeeping foof ffs...seems pathetic IMO.

Nothing against one pot meals my friend, as long as they are well made! 🥘🇮🇹

You've made an insightful observation! Jamie's intention to make cooking approachable can sometimes lead to overly complicated dishes, and adding more ingredients to cover mistakes can indeed result in a crowded flavor profile. Simplicity often allows each ingredient to shine. Let's hope for recipes that strike the right balance in the future! 🍝👨‍🍳😄

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Exactly. Not only physically, but also flavor-wise lasagna already is a dish with multiple layers: the umami of meat (or an appropriate vegetarian alternative like eggplant or mushrooms or pumpkin), the fresh acidity & sweetness of tomatoes, the salty tang of hard cheese, the pasta to give everything structure, and creamy bechamel to bring it all together. It took generations to balance this combination into the dish we all know and love today. Yet it still has a refreshing simplicity behind all its complexity, because every ingredient has a place, a purpose - that's what makes Italian cuisine (and many others) so great: it lets the ingredients shine. So why on earth would you want to confuse the palate with even more different flavors and textures, haphazardly thrown together? Peas? Mint?! Mustard?!? WTF!

Yeah I know, and I HATE casseroles!

​@@vincenzosplategood opinion

Thing is if it’s a pasta casserole then it’s done the wrong way. There’s a right way and wrong way to do a pasta casserole and he failed big time 👎🏻

@@suzie_lovescats I think one could make a pretty good casserole from some of these ingredients. The problem is as Vincenzo points out there are too many conflicting flavors and ingredients.

It's called a lot of things.

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It took Vincenzo a while, and now he gets it!!

You make a great point! Simplicity often leads to the most delicious and reliable results in cooking. Jamie might want to stick to British dishes for his culinary experiments to avoid unexpected surprises! 🍽️😊

Jamie should blodily take his retirement. This food is simply disgusting . A Cow wouldn't eat it (sorry India)

You nailed it. People need to stick to what they really know, which is usually their traditional cuisine. I have a food blog for Creole/Southern food that has a section on Chinese food, but I'm really clear that it's American style versions of common Chinese take out. Stay in your lane is good advice.

most italian dishes are quite „simple“ but they let the fantastic ingredients shine. tomatoes from heaven, cheese like mouthwatering parmigiano, pecorino, mozzarella, grade a pasta, basil, soffritto…simple but good. that‘s the secret. only the best things in->great output.

Because these dishes are very old and traditional. I guess if something would be wrong with them, they wouldn't have this tradition

The inedible dog slop he concocted is this ---> 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

It's true that fame can sometimes lead chefs down unconventional culinary paths! 😅 Jamie's TV journey has certainly been eventful. 📺🍽️

He's not even a chef, he's just a lucky guy who got an oppurtinity with his first show and it took off. There wasn't much of this content back than, I remember watching his show on TV as a kid.

Jamie Oliver reminds me of Graham Kerr, aka The Galloping Gourmet. He was one of the most famous chefs in the world and his show was entertaining - but he was a crap chef.@@sL1NK

Come on Jamie,you are a master chef,you can't go wrong with lasagna,you made disappointed to lasagna lovers indeed!

That's not what he's doing. He's showing that people who don't want/can't clean up all of those dishes can still make a great dish. 🙄

Especially since he has a whole studio support crew which does all the washing and cleaning up for him.

​@@tianamarie989 except it isn't a great dish. It's a nondescript (we might even call it "random" or "confused") veggie stew with some pasta sheets thrown in. There is nothing creative, innovative, or even time-saving in it. Making a proper lasagna would have used one, maybe two more pots, and would have taken about the same time (not the best lasagna in that short time, but absolutely doable). So what? - Just wash them up while the lasagna is in the oven. If you cannot spare the 30 seconds to do that, the 20 minutes it takes to prepare this dish would most probably be too long as well.

​@@stephanweinberger I've made *steamed* lasagne and I had to use at least 2 cookwares (a pot and, well, steamer, bare minimum). P.S: steaming is surprisingly not as wet as it sounds. 😅

Haha! 🇮🇹😅 It might have, but we can't let bad Italian dishes slide! Let's celebrate the real flavors of Italy! 🍝👌

One thing that I've learned about the Italians is that DO NOT DISRESPECT their food. Ever. They take it personally and I love that.

You've got a keen eye for culinary detective work! Sometimes, too many ingredients can be a sign of a dish gone awry. It's all about finding that perfect balance and harmony in flavors. 🍳🔍

if im cooking for myself, ill go wild, and suffer the result, if i am teaching how to cook crap, my name is oliver

Food is food, no matter the amount of ingredients

@@rickyinglis9292 not all mixture of letters make words, same goes for food.

Oh, Jamie, Jamie, Jamie! 😂🍝 Let's get him on the hot seat and ask about those culinary adventures. And that track sounds like a must-play! 🎶

Haha, your Gen X friends have quite the journey with Jamie! 😄🍴 It's funny how he transformed from a London barrow boy to a countryside chef. And yes, his Italian escapades were quite a spectacle! 🇮🇹 The "badabing" mission didn't quite hit the mark. 😅 But hey, he keeps things interesting, right? 📺👨‍🍳

Haha, sounds like a Jamie Oliver-style fridge raid recipe! 😄 You never know, it might turn out surprisingly tasty! 🍽️👨‍🍳

Impressive indeed! 🤣 It's like he embarked on a culinary adventure and ended up somewhere unexpected. Let's hope he finds his way back to delicious lasagna soon! 🍅🧀🇮🇹😄

Yeah this was a real example of that, but often he makes a version of the dish and never uses the word authentic at all (at least from what I’ve seen) and yet people still get all triggered in the comments 😂. What is the point of having anyone else have a recipe for a dish if you’re only “allowed” to make the authentic version? It’s like saying you can only cover a song a if you sing it EXACTLY the same way as the original

Haha, Jamie's lasagna adventure is the stuff of legends! 🍛📜 Who knows what he'll add next? We'll keep watching and critiquing, for better or for "lasagna." 😄🇮🇹👨‍🍳

@@vincenzosplate 😆

now he's adding some cream and chocolate in it, because why not making it a desert at the same time 😅

@@stephanewantiez164 😆 don’t forget the tablespoon of cinnamon on top, just to give it that pizzazz ✨

Haha, basmati risotto with Jamie, right? 🤣 But we know that's not how we do it in the Italian kitchen! Traditional risotto all the way! 👌🇮🇹

Jamie's got some serious acting skills in the kitchen! 🎬😂 Let's hope he sticks to his strengths, and we can enjoy his entertaining cooking experiments. 🍝👨‍🍳😄

I've seen several of Jamie's videos where the dish he is tasting at the end bears no resemblance to the thing he cooked.

Oh, he's also a decent cook - as long as he stays with English cuisine. There are some older shows with him where he does some amazing pies and other traditional English/British dishes. It's when he tries to apply those ideas, techniques and ingredients to foreign food where the problems start. He just seems very stuck in one way of cooking, one cuisine, and tries to shoehorn it into everything.

You're absolutely right! A classic vegetarian lasagna with tomato sauce, bechamel, fresh mozzarella, and cheese is not only delicious but also a wonderful way to enjoy the flavors of Italy. Sometimes simplicity and tradition are all you need for a fantastic dish. 🍅🧀🍝😋

@@vincenzosplate it’s my go to lasagna since I quit drinking and have yet to formulate a stock that can replace wine in my ragus🫤

Dammit, just reading that makes me go hmmm...😋

Nonna's food is often regarded as the heart and soul of Italian cuisine, and many cherish the authenticity and tradition it represents. It's clear that Jamie's recipes can sometimes take quite creative liberties with Italian dishes. Staying true to the Nonna's style is a great way to preserve those cherished culinary traditions! 🍝🇮🇹😊

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