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This pasta is impossible to make. A celebrity chef once spent two HOURS trying.
by etothepii 2y ago
This 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.
- jodrellblank 2y agoTFA - The Fabled Article. "the fabled TFA" is then like PIN Number and ATM Machine.
- Etheryte 2y agoJamie Oliver if memory serves well, so that doesn't exactly tell you much. Behind the scenes he's known for making food that looks good, but not necessarily tasty.
- gcanyon 2y agoUncle Roger looking on, unsurprised, as Jamie Oliver tries for two hours and fails. "Like Uncle Roger tried for two hours with ex-girlfriend. <I'm so sorry children>"
- zuntaruk 2y ago[dead]
- skyyler 2y agoThe Uncle Roger character is so fascinating to me. I can't shake the feeling that the popularity is largely from playing out stereotypes for a mass audience. It feels ideologically similar to a minstrel show in ways that I don't have a vocabulary to describe accurately.
- unsnap_biceps 2y agoI grew up watching yan can cook and uncle Rodger struck me at how inauthentic it is. It feels exactly how you described.
- gcanyon 2y agoI’ve seen interviews with the comedian/actor out of character, and he insists that Uncle Roger is exactly what uncles from Malaysia are like (I assume exaggerated at least a little for comedic effect). So maybe it’s okay? Or maybe in a few years he’ll be retiring the character the way Chris Rock retired his “N” routine. All I know is that it’s not my place to tell him what to do with his heritage.
- jodrellblank 2y agoI think it's a ridiculous claim that he tried for two hours and gave up so it's impossible, but it does tell you something that it's Jamie Oliver and not just anybody. His first job was pastry chef at Antonio Carluccio's Italian restaurant. He was mentored by Italian chef Gennaro Contaldo, also friends with and business partners - their joint high-street restaurant chain was Jamie's Italian. He did a TV show Jamie's Great Italian Escape of him touring Italy, and ten years later a one-off Jamie's Italian Christmas, and with Contaldo they did the show Jamie Cooks Italy. He's been awarded the Order of the Star of Italy, as chef and restauranteur. That is, he's pretty familiar with Italian cuisine and making pasta compared to a random average person / cook or chef who hasn't specialised in it.