Blurt!Commonplace Book

Italy

“I can see you out there, skipping the pasta water steps of pasta preparation — the reserving some of the starchy pasta water, and the tossing the cooked pasta and sauce with the pasta water to bring everything together. I can see you, being skeptical of the necessity of these steps. I see it! It makes me sick.”

posted Sep. 29, 2022, 8:00pm

“Another course — a citrus foam — was served in a plaster cast of the chef’s mouth. Absent utensils, we were told to lick it out of the chef’s mouth in a scene that I’m pretty sure was stolen from an eastern European horror film.”

posted Aug. 27, 2022, 8:00pm