[epolanski]

As an Italian I find your post quite wrong for so many reasons, most importantly because there's an endless amount of recipes and because in Italy alone we have hundreds of different tomatoes in color, size, sweetness, acidity taste and methods of preparation.

Pasta made with fresh tomatoes is absolutely great and it is ridiculous to even think the opposite. The boiling is only done for some kind of tomatoes and it is done to peel it, heat does not make it lose any flavor.

[tptacek]

That's fascinating and all, but vacuum dehydration does in fact preserve volatiles (the same way rotovap vacuum distillation preserves volatiles in liqueurs), and canned tomatoes generally are better than out-of-season fresh tomatoes.

[acalzycalzy]

“As an Italian” - eh lots of cultures use tomatoes.

[epolanski]

Sure, but we're arguing about an italian dish.