Word: spaghettied
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fans are more loyal to sandwiches than children. Their parents may feel that hot food on a plate is more nutritious than a fast cold meal, but children at school cafeterias can be observed making sandwiches out of everything, including spaghetti with meat sauce stuffed into hamburger buns, so they can eat quickly and have time to play...
...that young women are rushing out of restaurants to assault him." That has been happening to Eastwood, 55, since he first sauntered across television screens in 1959 as Rowdy Yates on Rawhide and, in the mid-'60s, appeared as the taut-jawed, tight-lipped hero of three movies dubbed spaghetti westerns. But it is clearly not the kind of scene that the mayor likes to see playing in Carmel...
...Italians, the meat or fish and the cheese we add are enrichment enough," Ronza says. "Spaghetti is still our No. 1 seller, but short pasta is becoming more popular. Some cooks still prefer to break long thick pasta such as ziti or the corkscrew fusilli into small pieces as they drop them into boiling salted water, but most people like them precut...
...Italy, Ronza notes, "you can get big arguments around any family dining table about the shapes of pasta that should go with different sauces." Large flowerets of broccoli, for example, do not work with long strands of linguine or spaghetti because it should be possible to pick up with a fork the solids in the sauce as well as the pasta. Big chunks of vegetables and meat are far better with the little ears (orecchiette) or penne. Finer ingredients, such as peas and minced prosciutto in a creamy sauce, are more suitable to delicate pastas that are twirled. That twirling...
According to Angelo De Angelis, sales manager of Zia Dora, Gerardo di Nola's U.S. importer, the five most popular shapes are spaghetti, the ridged quill- shaped penne, linguine, the fine angel's hair capelli d'angelo and short, mixed pasta shapes used in minestrone...