Tomato sauces:
To know them is to use them..and use them well!!
by Roberta Corradin
Tomato concentrate
A concentrate is cooked and condensed tomato sauce, often sold with aroma additives. As is the case with bottled sauces, it is often used and abused in ill-fated cooking attempts (My very own eyes have witnessed an anthropological researcher smear it directly on a mound of spaghetti (naturally overcooked!) And me? I who in my student days was poorer than penniless? I used it to give a little color to a molded salmon… Never, never use it. And especially not in pasta sauce. It's just fine for adding color or aroma to broth, or for a sauce for acciughe al rosso, or to put an enhancing blush on a pale sauce. But, please, do not put it near your pasta!
A concentrate is cooked and condensed tomato sauce, often sold with aroma additives. As is the case with bottled sauces, it is often used and abused in ill-fated cooking attempts (My very own eyes have witnessed an anthropological researcher smear it directly on a mound of spaghetti (naturally overcooked!) And me? I who in my student days was poorer than penniless? I used it to give a little color to a molded salmon… Never, never use it. And especially not in pasta sauce. It's just fine for adding color or aroma to broth, or for a sauce for