Word: fregula
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Mario Batali grabs a brawny handful of parsley leaves and tosses them into the pot without looking. Onstage before a crowd of 400 at the International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago, Batali is demonstrating how to make fregula soup with clams. It's a simple recipe--fregula is just a kind of pasta--but the soup looks a mess. An intemperate amount of chili flakes has gone in, as has what seemed unadvisedly large pinches of saffron, which has a neat but metallic flavor that can overwhelm. As Batali stumbles over a loose cord onstage, it occurs...
...grabbed a spoon. The soup rocked. The chili balanced and electrified the saffron; chicken stock and the fregula smoothed everything out. Seeing my surprise, West shrugged. "The man knows how to cook...
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