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What food do you eat that would give you a bad rep if other chefs knew about it?
CC: When I get home late at night after a party, I make a sandwich with beef, salami, cream cheese and toast. My nickname is the Swami of Salami, I don't think I've ever told anyone about this.

Which celebrity would you love to cook for and why?
CC: Jimmy Fallon, because I want to go on the show and cook with him and other celebrity guests. He hasn't had me on yet, and I'll show him real Italian food.

What chef would you like to see naked?
CC: I think I prefer to see most chefs with their clothes on. Even the Naked Chef Jamie Oliver wears clothes.

What do you think of vegetarians?
CC: My pigs are vegetarians too -- the ones we make salumi with. There's nothing wrong with being vegetarian.

What's going on in the food world that's pissing you off?
CC: A lot of people cook Italian food, but they don't know true Italian cooking. This confuses people to what real Italian cooking even is. You don't see me cooking Chinese or French food!

Cesare Casella is chef and owner of Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto in New York City.

Including 12-year-old David Fishman of New York City. It seems that on a recent night, when his parents were going to be a little late getting home, they told him that it would be okay for him to go out and get some takeout for dinner. Instead of hitting the local Middle Eastern as usual, he took himself down to Salumeria Rosi, which had opened just a few days before.

Despite a crush of diners and reservations, the restaurant made room for him and he settled in for dinner. Fishman is something of a foodie and aspires to be a restaurant critic and so brought a notebook along with him so that he could record his impressions of the solo meal. The chef/owner came out to greet him and sent him home with some hazelspread as a treat for later. Later, his mom stopped by to pick him up.

I don't think I would have been aware or confident enough at 12 to take myself to any restaurant beyond a local sandwich shop or the food court at the mall. How about the rest of you?

[via the New York Times]

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