Poor Italians Created This Recipe — Now Restaurants Charge €40 For It

One 5-minute video, one legendary budget dish: Pasta alla Norma — the Sicilian eggplant pasta that went from poor families’ kitchens to €40 restaurant menus. The full method: a smooth sieved tomato sugo, honey-glazed golden eggplant, the Italian 1–10–100 pasta rule, and a Parmesan–pasta-water cream.