How does pasta turn from hard to tender?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Pasta is delicious, whether it’s rigatoni, linguine, macaroni or any shape at all! When you buy pasta from the store, it’s usually hard, crunchy, and dry. But after cooking it, the pasta is tender and toothsome! How does that work? We asked cookbook author and cooking teacher Julia Turshen to help us find the answer.
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| 0:35.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:41.2 | Answering those questions that make you go, um, um, um, um, comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Molly Bloom. |
| 1:03.5 | Um. |
| 1:07.7 | Thank you for calling the Brains on Poetry Hotline, This Smalley. How can I help you? |
| 1:12.4 | Oh, hi, Mark. You were working on your meatless meatball recipe in the Labber Kitchen when poetic |
| 1:17.8 | inspiration struck. Hmm, and now you're up to your elbows and mariners so you dialed the |
| 1:23.1 | poetry hotline with your nose? I mean, first of all, Mark, what a talent. |
| 1:30.0 | But yes, I'm happy to help with any poetry needs. |
| 1:31.6 | You want a poem about pasta? |
| 1:32.5 | You got it. |
| 1:35.5 | Just give me a few minutes to use my noodle. |
| 1:36.4 | Get it? |
| 1:37.4 | Mark? |
| 1:39.3 | Alrighty. |
| 1:40.6 | Pasta poetry. |
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