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Zuppa Pavese

July 26th, 2010

A couple of Sundays ago, the following things occurred to me in roughly the following order:

  • A single whole chicken is a thing of joy and wonder
  • The Wye River food store, whilst very pleasant and a great place to take the kids, is really not that great
  • The secret of poaching eggs is not to let the bubbles break the surface of the water
  • Fried bread should be mandatory on Sundays » Read more: Zuppa Pavese

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Two great vegetarian pasta dishes

April 24th, 2010

Pasta. Honestly, I’m really rather over it. Too heavy, too stodgy, too much not enough fun. The Italian futurist Marinetti launched a campaign against pasta in the 1930s writing that “futurist cooking will be liberated from the ancient obsession with weight and volume, and one of its principal aims will be the abolition of pastasciutta. Pastasciutta, however grateful to the palate, is an obsolete food; it is heavy, brutalising and gross; its nutritive qualities are deceptive; it induces scepticism, sloth and pessimism”.  » Read more: Two great vegetarian pasta dishes

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