Some foods are hot. Those cooked with lashings of tomato? hot; anything egg-laden? - certainly hot (though not stracciatella, chicken broth with raw egg and parmesan cooking in the heat) which is for invalids so cannot be hot by definition; elaborated dishes costing time devoted to their individual creation? hot (unlike what I would regard as pretty elaborate like home made pasta with sauces made of the innards of animals, various, which are daily bread, more or less, therefore not hot), food containing bought ingredients, particularly cream, sugar, vanilla (though not nutmeg - that is a naturally occurring substance in the Tuscan world) and cinnamon? hot.
There is a constant theme revealing itself to my foreign eyes: are these ingredients readily available from home production or local exchange? Not hot. Does this dish use inordinate amounts of a staple? Hot. Does it require cash expenditures? Vindaloo.
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