The Bucatini Dialogues: A Debate About Pasta Shapes (Reheat)
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The Bucatini Dialogues: A Debate About Pasta Shapes (Reheat)

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 16, 202634 min
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“Literally all pasta shapes are wonderful except bucatini. Bucatini can go get effed.” Francis Lam’s strongly-worded tweet inspired Dan to organize a live event in 2018, where he, Francis (host of The Splendid Table), and Evan Kleiman (host of Good Food) could debate the merits of various pasta shapes. It was called “The Bucatini Dialogues” — and yes, it was the night when Dan first announced his intention to invent a new pasta shape. But now, for the first time, we’re airing the rest of that conversation. We cover a range of shapes and tackle the tough questions, like: Why would you...

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Hey everyone, Dan here and I am celebrating because it is National Pasta Month. Happy National Pasta Month to all who celebrate, which I'm pretty sure includes you. Now, of course, here on The Sporkful, this is an especially exciting month. So to celebrate, we're reheating an episode in which we dare to debate the merits of various

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pasta shapes. Now this episode was taped live on stage. You heard a little bit of it in our Mission Impossible series, but it was actually much longer after the pasta came out when we released that live show in its entirety. And that's what you're gonna hear today. I was joined on stage by Evan Kliman and

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Francis Lam, both trained chefs and longtime food podcast hosts, as well as friends of each other and me. We covered a plethora of pasta questions from the best approach to eating a bowl of ramen to whether there's a time and place for overcooked pasta.

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