To Carl B.
The key to Italian cooking (southern Italy) is the red tomato sauce.
Italian American sauce often has sugar or something sweet like carrot or onion. Authentic Italian sauce has a very rich full flavor but is not sweet. My family is from Calabria (in the toe of the boot) & I try to replicate my grand mother’s cooking.
When i went to Italy i found that the mozzarella was not made from milk as it is in the US. Instead it was fresh goat milk and it was fabulous. So some ingredients are just not going to be the same and that can not be helped.
In general, restaurants & pizza parlors serve food they think everyone will eat & will not be too costly to prepare. Americans like a lot of salt & sugar & may be unfamiliar with Italian spices.
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