pasta Archivi - Virdex

24 Sep

Two tricks for “figuring out” pasta

Tuesday September 24th, 2024
By Giulio Virduci

Hey Pasta Lovers! Fancy two quick and simple tricks to test the quality of dried pasta? 1) Check the colour! This must be a homogene...

11 Mar

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Ravioli and Polygenesis

Monday March 11th, 2024
By Giulio Virduci

By polygenesis we mean a phenomenon that was not born from a single cause, but rather evolved as several lineages independent of one an...

29 Sep

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Assassin’s Spaghetti!

Friday September 29th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

We all know how to cook spaghetti, right? You put the water in the pan and start heating it and... You know what? Not all recipes s...

31 May

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Speaking Macaronic

Wednesday May 31st, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

Hey you, can you speak Macaronic? Ok, let's be more precise here: there is no such an idiom. However, there is the expression mac...

25 May

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Al dente is better!

Thursday May 25th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

How do you like your pasta cooked? Ok, tastes are subjective, of course. Still... Al dente has objective advantages. Just be carefu...

23 May

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Laughter, laughter, mom made gnocchi for supper!

Friday June 16th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

There is an old Italian saying which reads: "Ridi ridi, che la mamma ha fatto gli gnocchi!". My attempt at a translation would be: ...

04 May

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The poor Alfredo

Thursday May 4th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

Some different types of Italian pasta. Quite a nice map, right? It was made by the fantastic and very useful Website TasteAtlas. ...

14 Mar

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We owe our fork to Spaghetti!

Tuesday March 14th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

Spaghetti was a great invention (no, Marco Polo has nothing to do with it!). On the other hand, there's an invention that we owe to sp...

19 Dec

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That old custom of “Scarpetta”

Thursday January 12th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

In the Italian culinary tradition there is a "practice" which, although consolidated, is still considered not in keeping with etiquette...

05 Dec

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The priest-chokers

Thursday January 12th, 2023
By Giulio Virduci

One of the most significant inventions in the world of catering equipment concerns pasta: let's tak about the bronze man. It was in ...

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