Slate's Julia Turner joins Dan to discuss the merits of short vs. long pastas, which shapes should be eliminated, and the best ways to get different shapes into your mouth, including the question of whether short pastas are better eaten with a spoon.
From Lindsay in Surrey, BC, Canada.12:40pm: Leftover (from last night) spinach and ricotta cannelloni and leftover (from breakfast) iced coffee. The cannelloni recipe I have is enough to fill a square glass baking pan and an extra rectangular one. The square one we have for dinner, the extra ends up split into leftovers for a few people the next day. I'm
My after-lunch espresso started fine, with a well-pulled shot bearing respectable crema. I like just a touch of sugar in mine, so I very gently tipped the opaque, silver sugar pourer over my cup. I was shocked when a thin, dark liquid came out. In an instant I tried to convince myself it was some kind of trendy brown sugar
I first proposed spaghetti tacos in early 2002, as a way to simultaneously utilize leftover pasta and deplete an intimidatingly tall stack of fresh corn tortillas. The reply I got was, "I like fusion cuisine, but that is too fused." I didn't make them. Now I'm softly vindicated in the NYT, via delayed release from Nickelodeon. These spaghetti tacos use
Mark and Dan discuss techniques for consuming certain Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean noodles and pasta, as well as Asian noodle soups.