Tuesday, November 4, 2008

pasta 101

pat likes to occasionally make our family guess what the pasta name means in italian (i.e. tortellini means "bellybutton.") the other night at dinner, he was asking grace what she thought "linguine" means. the answer: "little tongues." i told him next time to please wait until i'm finished eating if the name is something like that. ugh.

bonus quote:
grace: "you know how your food can go down the wrong pipe. well, air can go down the wrong way too!"

Note from Pat: Tortelli does not mean "belly button." What this story lost in translation (from me to April) is that the shape of the tortellini was inspired by a belly button.
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jennah said...

Little tongues? Belly buttons? Some things ARE best not translated. Thanks for the enlightenment Pat.

November 5, 2008 at 12:41 PM

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