Comments on: Tastin’

By: Clifford

Clifford — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:12:56 +0000

I’m so sorry to have offended you. I will try hard to do better.

“please call it the right way”

Now, I could go into a pointless pedantic deconstruction of your interesting use of the English language in exchange for your fixation on my liberal use of “salami” vs “salame”… but that would be unconscionably rude of me.

-cvj

By: Paolo

Paolo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:15:25 +0000

If you really like italian food, please call it the right way. Thanks.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:34:16 +0000

I’ll head there as soon as I’m bitten by the gelato bug…

-cvj

By: Alexis

Alexis — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:26:25 +0000

YES! Add wine to basically anything and you’re in good shape. We tried Cabernet sorbet at Al Gelato on Robertson in LA too…check it out sometime, Clifford!

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:00:53 +0000

Ruthie, Alexis is wise. No road trip is complete without wine-infused salami.

-cvj

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:06:27 +0000

That’s so funny: Alexis and I had tried several of these wine salamis on our trip and really liked them. I was quite skeptical, but glad Alexis convinced me to try it (story of my life….)

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:10:16 +0000

(Of course, I’m skating on really thin ice if the singular vs plural is to be more strictly applied to types of sausage, as opposed to quantities within a given type… In which case I fall back on the “borrowed term” defence. )

-cvj

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:59:00 +0000

You’re absolutely right, and I am familiar with this, but my usage here is consistent with that, in a sense. First, you will notice that I did not say “a pinot grigio salami”. I am, for clarity, consistently adhering to the common/standard usage in an English-speaking culinary context, as far as I am aware. (You can also see it on the label of the product.) There (here), one’s sentences are constructed so that the plural form is used in most contexts. Actually, it sort of works, because one is not really referring to the sausage itself as the item… it is merely a container for a quantity of the product, itself always being thought of as plural. (Sort of analogous to how one uses the term “water”.)

Thanks,

-cvj

By: Paolo

Paolo — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:30:56 +0000

FYI: in italian, “salame” singular, “salami” plural.