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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WHAT HAVE I BEEN EATING?
- GUAVA PASTE - it's a party in your mouth and only the funniest and sexiest people are invited. LEMON LICORICE MINT - why isn't this available everywhere? I need to make ice cream with this. LAPHROAIG SINGLE MALT WHISKY - the taste of peat, smoke and fisherman without the fish. Would it be wrong to actually steal it from dad's liquor cabinet? GREEN MANGOES - perfume, juice, joy, bliss. RICE PADDY HERB - swampy,peppery, utterly unique. Suddenly I'm back on the Tonle Sap in Cambodia... LAST WEEK'S FAMILY DINNERS: Thai style pork omlettes and steamed rice. Lions head meatballs and steamed rice. Orange and tarragon roast chicken,Vanessa's squash,crusty bread and green salad. Chinese take away (spicy squid, bbq pork in plum sauce, crispy skin chicken, steamed rice). Fragrant squid salad with herbs and lemongrass. Home-made pizzas. Tomato, lentil and basil soup. And the winner was...lion's head meatballs.
