What I Learned From: Goodfellas

Paul Sorvino slicing garlic in Goodfellas

In the narration of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, the narration includes a nice cooking tip:

"In prison, dinner was always a big thing. We had a pasta course and then we had a meat or fish. Paulie did the prep work. He was doing a year for contempt, and he had this wonderful system for doing the garlic. He used a razor, and he used to slice it so thin that he used to liquefy in the pan with just a little oil. It was a very good system."

It has to be very thin, almost to the point of transparency, but it does work. You slice up the garlic thin as you can, and they will liquefy just like the man said.

So, there you go, practical cooking tips from one of the best films of the 1990s. Enjoy.