No Bugs for me thanks!

It is all in the simplicity. And this simplicity is part of Mediterrenean Cooking Culture. We have it here as well, although strictly speaking, we are caught between cultures - the Near Eastern and the Mediterrenean. I once has a conversation about this with an Italian colleague who remarked upon how they make chicken and rice here in Turkey. Chicken, salt, butter, rice. Period. No fancy spices, no sauces, nothing.

And the same thing applies here. Read the recipe below. What could be simpler? Garlic, Basil, tomatoes, olive oil. That's it for the sauce. Mozzarella, Parmezan added - and you're done. So - would it be easy to make this so that it tastes like that? Nope. When the ingredients are simple they have to be the best. The best, ripest tomatoes. The best basil. The best garlic. The best olive oil. In other words, not the sort of stuff one gets in a supermarket. Not even one of those fancy gourmet supermarkets. Especially when we talk about supermarket tomatoes. Yikes... And even the pasta itself, probably...