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Threads of God
- tananan 2y agoA pilgrimage whose completion you are rewarded for by an ultra rare pasta, love it.
- ErigmolCt 2y agoCombining a spiritual journey with the reward of an ultra-rare, handmade delicacy feels like the perfect blend of tradition and gastronomy
- koziserek 2y agoServed in a liquid infused with boiled bones of lesser animals. You've got to love the level of hypocrisy of organised religion as well.
- majoe 2y ago> hypocrisy of organised religion - There is a local religious festival - People prepare delicious meals according to the local culinary tradition. - The Catholic church doesn't have any rules, which would restrict the consumption of the prepared meals. I fail to see the hypocrisy. If you want to start a discussion about the ethics of eating food, you surely find a more suited place.
- koziserek 2y agoDefinitely not a place or time for extended discussion on this, but I'm quite hopeful that in another century or two it will become a shameful page in history books - the fact that when we were already able to sustain our civilisation without generating unnecessary suffering of other beings - we continued to do so out of convenience. 500 years ago if you were born into peasant family, you usually stayed peasant no matter what personal effort and talent you brought to this world. 200 years ago your sister would be treated as a posession of a guy who married her. I'm happy that our beautiful traditions evolve into more thoughtful iterations. And I hope that logic and kindness will continue to increase their impact on our lives and policies. Merry Christmas.
- bobxmax 2y agoReligions are hypocritical because they eat animals? That's certainly a take.
- koziserek 2y agoThou shalt not kill
- ErigmolCt 2y agoI think it’s important to consider the context...
- koziserek 2y ago2-in-1 offer! Absolution & digestion, limited offer, bring your phones to take a mandatory selfie!
- Dilettante_ 2y ago[Tom Waits voice:]Step right up! Step right up!
- koziserek 2y agoDidn't know this song, thanks!
- tananan 2y agoToo much! hope it's not marketed like that.
- shever73 2y agoThe 2022 BBC article goes into more depth: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20161014-the-secret-behind-italys-rarest-pasta https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20161014-the-secret-behin...
- ErigmolCt 2y agoThe fact that it’s still made by hand and only for a specific event, makes it all the more special
- mihaic 2y agoI keep hearing about this rare and extremely difficult to make pasta, but one thing I always wondered is how good it actually is. My feeling is that it's just an ok dish with a cultural legacy attached to it.
- josfredo 2y agoI think your observation applies to most cultural legacies.
- lordnacho 2y agoCynic in me agrees with you. It's a common idea in the modern industrial world that there's still some artisan out there who makes something authentic and impossible to mimic. But my parents who ran a restaurant could make a simulacrum of pretty much every kind of food they ever came across. And they weren't world experts with a long training at Michelin star restaurants, they had minimal training. What did they they use their training for? Of course convincing people that they were making authentic Asian dishes in a western suburb.
- TheAceOfHearts 2y agoI've known a few people to try some rare delicacies and the focus is always on it being more of a symbol of status or wealth rather than it tasting particularly good. One example is those really expensive fruit from Japan. If you look them up on YouTube the general consensus I've seen is that they're good but probably not enough to merit paying that much for them unless you're incredibly wealthy. Anything that's actually really tasty or unique ends up becoming widespread and it eventually becomes reasonably affordable for anyone to try. One example of this is wagyu beef; at one time it was relatively rare and very expensive, but now you can find it in many asian supermarkets and a small cut is affordable for anyone.
- dghughes 2y ago> I always wondered is how good it actually is. For me "gamey mutton broth" is all I need to know. Yuck. Anything but mutton.
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- mml 2y agosounds identical to the well known “dragon hair” noodle technique from china.
- etothepii 2y agoThis pasta is impossible to make. A celebrity chef once spent two HOURS trying.
- a12k 2y agoI heard about this. The famous celebrity chef, someone everyone here has heard of, traveled all the way to Sardinia to learn the intricate technique known by only three women, who presumably have spent a lifetime learning this technique. After a full two hours, the chef declared it impossible. Mind bending.
- Dilettante_ 2y agoAre we playing the Pronoun Game here? Is the famous celebrity chef in question Lord Voldemort?
- stavros 2y ago> Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver also visited Sardinia in hopes of mastering the elusive noodle. After two hours, he gave up. I heard about this too, here on this very forum, in an article about this pasta, today.
- Dilettante_ 2y agoMy bad. I'm on extremely limited bandwidth right now, so I can only read the HN threads and not the links. I plead oopsie daisy.
- stavros 2y agoThat's OK, it gave me a chance to be snarky, which I relish these days. Honestly, I rarely read the articles myself.
- pavel_lishin 2y agoI trekked for twenty miles, at night, so that I could reach the fabled TFA.
- iLoveOncall 2y ago> use the original title, unless it is misleading Even knowing (or especially knowing) what Atlas Obscura is, I did not expect an article titled "Threads of God" to be about some freaking pasta, it is definitely misleading. Titles are really the worst part of HackerNews.
- JoBrad 2y agoI disagree. It’s a captivating title. The BBC article has more narrative and detail, but the Atlas Obscura article goes straight to the point. My first thoughts about the title’s subject were that it must be astronomy, needlework (lace), or computing. It was a pleasant surprise that none of my thoughts were accurate.
- iLoveOncall 2y ago> I disagree. It’s a captivating title. Yes that's called clickbait and it's also forbidden by the HN guidelines...
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- wslh 2y agoHow do them compare with Capellini [1]? They have a name connected to the idea of "Threads of God": "capelli d'angelo" or "angel hair" in English. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capellini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capellini
- JoBrad 2y agoWell, Capellini is thicker than Angel Hair. ToG is half as thick as Angel Hair.
- SapporoChris 2y agoNanopasta is a bit thinner, 2,000 times thinner than angel hair pasta (which is 0.8mm thick) https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/chemistry/nanopasta-thinnest-spaghetti/ https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/chemistry/nanopasta-thinn...
- pachico 2y agoYou don't even have to go to these extremes to understand how rich and delicate Italian cuisine is. I am lucky to have lived 10 years in Italy and, after they, 25 in Spain. Although Spain is one of the Meccas of food, Italy is simply another level and you can see this from how deeply in the people the food and their techniques are, not just by how good Michelin star restaurants are. And my prediction is they one day the international community will understand how much there is in Italy beyond pasta and pizza.
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