Italiano
The poor Alfredo
Some different types of Italian pasta.
Quite a nice map, right?
It was made by the fantastic and very useful Website TasteAtlas.
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04
May
Tag Archives: pasta
14
Mar
We owe our fork to Spaghetti!
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
That old custom of “Scarpetta”
In the Italian culinary tradition there is a "practice" which, although consolidated, is still considered not in keeping with etiquette...
05
Dec
The priest-chokers
One of the most significant inventions in the world of catering equipment concerns pasta: let's tak about the bronze man.
It was in ...
30
Nov
Tooth and nail
Cooking al dente, meaning literally "to the tooth", is a fairly well-known way of cooking pasta.
The pasta is left to boil for less ...
07
Sep
Energy-saving and Pasta? Yes, but…
When it comes to cooking, there is a practice of energy saving that, despite being quite simple, has never caught on too much: turning ...
02
Sep
What’s good about wholemeal pasta
Wholemeal pasta certainly has benefits, although sometimes one tends to exaggerate them.
It has more fibers than ordinary "white" dr...
29
Aug
Pastafazool
When the stars make you drool,
just like pasta fazool,
That's amore!
I have always been amazed by the fact that one of the typical...
03
Aug
The priest-chokers
Fancy some priest-chokers?
There are many types of pasta, with the most peculiar and imaginative names.
But perhaps no one like the...
26
Jul
Jefferson and his pasta-machine
There is a quality that perhaps only few people know about Thomas Jefferson: he was a gourmet, passionate about cooking and good food...
