Whether in your own dining room or a five-star restaurant, you can always mop up the bread! Even etiquette approves it!

The practice of “to mop up the sauce”"It's one of those Italian traditions lost in time. It seems to have two origins: one theory holds that bread is a metaphor for a shoe that, "passing" over a plate, picks up whatever it finds, similarly, a piece of bread picks up the best part of a dish. The second story links the act of picking up food from a plate to the word "scarpetta," a type of light and flexible shoe, alluding to the action of a person who is very hungry because they are poor. We'll never know the true origin of this tasty custom for sure, but, without a doubt, "scarpetta" is one of those colorful ways that characterize an Italian at the table.

Even etiquette, with its strict rules, shares, always with a certain reserve, the "fare la scarpetta" (scarping off the bread)!

Be careful though, as it is considered a “rough” practice, to do the shoe in a restaurant or in a formal context, some rules must be followed: it is always better to use your hands rather than "stab the bread with a fork to make an elegant mop", he says in a item Journalist Elda Lanza. So, we can politely dip a piece of bread in the remaining sauce and savor our dish to the very end. However, many authoritative voices come to the rescue. The maestro Gualtiero Marchesi He has always maintained that there is nothing better for a chef than a dish that comes back to the kitchen clean because the customer has literally dried the sauce down to the last drop. And again Vissani who has always winked at making the scarpetta or John Holy cards which confirms the chefs' satisfaction with this practice.

With education e grace So, a little piece of bread to mop up that tasty ragù left on your plate is never a mistake. If at a table with a group of friends, no one dares break the ice for fear of being out of place, be the first to mop up the sauce!

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