>Frankie,
those were some meatballs!!!!
The much anticipated Emeril Live Show of August 7 featuring Frankie's Gravy and 3 other award winning Italian recipes was well worth the wait. Emeril did a very good job of re-creating Frankie Imbergamo's spaghetti sauce with meatballs. What was wonderful about the opening segment was the story behind the story. Watching Frankie walking the streets of Boston's Little Italy (The North End) and his visit to Frank the butcher to buy the meat to put in the gravy evoked memories of what many mothers and grandmothers did before the advent of the antiseptic and mass produced slop (i.e., Ragu, Prego etc.) that 'Amerdicanes' call sauce.
Frankie's end product as demonstrated is beyond compare to these products, I know, I've tasted it on a number of occasions. Ask the men at the ITAM club in Medford, they all rave about it. I didn't think that Emeril was going to do the recipe justice, but when I saw the end product on TV that night, maronna, those meatballs were just about jumping through my TV screen.
The only down side to the program was that I would like to have seen a little more of Frankie and his old neighborhood. He came across as such a natural host that the likes of Rick Steeves should be afraid of losing their jobs.
If you missed the original airing of the show, don't worry, it will be repeated Saturday Aug. 13, at 8:00PM and again at 12:00AM on Aug.14.
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