Wine • Drinks • Italian • Breakfast
"The papardelle was a bit too al dente for my wife, who is obsessed with well cooked pasta. So we swapped meals. I gave her my pasta dish. It was the special, crab linguine I think. She was happy with that. She was an au pair in Turin many years ago and insists that she never came across al dente (under cooked in her parlance! pasta there. This is not a complaint! This is a matter of personal taste. Is there a difference between North and Southern Italy when it comes to a consensus on how to cook pasta?"
