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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

A Pasta Tour of Italy with Dan Pashman

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Cookbook author and Sporkful host Dan Pashman sets out on a research trip across Italy in search of highly regional pasta dishes that he can’t find anywhere else. Along the way, he learns a shocking truth about Italy and pasta, and ponders innovation and authenticity in one of the world’s most popular cuisines. Check out Dan’s new cookbook, Anything's Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes for Saucy People.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, so I have a few rapid-fire pasta questions for you.

0:04.8

Okay, bring it on.

0:05.9

I love a lightning round.

0:07.4

Red sauce or white sauce?

0:08.9

I don't love a thick heavy cream sauce, so I guess I'd go red sauce,

0:12.1

but I'm also a little tired of red sauce can I say

0:14.7

neither?

0:15.7

Sure what's the third option you gonna go with like uh...

0:18.9

third option is any one of the other millions of great pasta dishes like the ones in my

0:22.4

cookbook and others that are out there that are not the same old same old

0:26.3

Thin noodles or thick noodles I have these three criteria that I use to judge all pasta shapes.

0:33.7

There's fork ability, how easy is it to get it under fork and keep it there.

0:37.3

Sauce ability, how well the sauce adhere to the shape, and tooth sink ability,

0:41.9

which is how satisfying is it to sink your teeth into it.

0:44.4

And I think in general a bigger, thicker pasta shape is going to be more tooth sinkable.

0:48.3

It's going to be meteor.

0:49.4

And to me, like that's something that I love in pasta.

0:51.8

I want to be able to really

0:54.4

good quality well-cooked pasta should taste it should feel like like biting into a

0:58.9

perfectly cooked steak while laying your head on a cool pillow at the end of a long day.

1:04.0

These are the longest lightning round answers.

1:07.0

Human, possible.

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