Now It's History

Now It's History

Trump's spaghetti-test presidency

Throwing stuff at the wall turns into a recipe for chaos

Richard Galant
Mar 06, 2025
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Food historian Luca Cesari wrote in 2017 that Italians living abroad are almost invariably asked about testing the doneness of pasta by throwing it against the wall to see if it sticks.

No serious chef would ever use that test. The idea is bogus, but as Cesari noted in an Italian-language post (thanks Google Translate!), “like all urban legends, this one…

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