On Food and Cooking

are its moist, fine, satisfyingly substantial texture and its neutral flavor, which makes it a good partner for a ...

cooks concentrated on simple long noodles and thin wrappers, prepared them fresh and by hand, sometimes ...

Mediterranean world long before Marco Polo. Noodles in China Despite the fact that wheat was grown in the ...

China also invented filled pasta, the original ravioli, in which the dough surrounds and encloses a ma ...

retaining the suggestion of prosperity, and spread to the south around the 12th century. Noodles made their way ...

from fermented doughs; they cooked pasta for an hour or more until it was very moist and soft; they ...

And without a break in the haste and hurry The stars separate and the hailstones fall. In the basket, no spattere ...

drowning in it or dispersed in a soup or stew. With its ideal climate for drying raw noodles, a tricky p ...

one. Dried durum pasta is now made on an industrial scale in many countries. In addition, modern heat ...

proteins. Durum wheats have the advantage of a high gluten content, and a gluten that is less elastic ...

of water in it. — Decameron, Day 8, Tale 3 After the ingredients are mixed and briefly kneaded into a homoge ...

most fresh pastas sold in the United States are of this type. Eggs perform two functions in nood ...

To make egg pasta, the ingredients are mixed in proportions that give a stiff dough; the dough is kneaded u ...

dissolved proteins and gelated starch, and make a firm noodle. Making Durum Pasta Dough and ...

up with a glossier, smoother surface, with fewer pores and cracks through which hot water can ...

yellow xanthophyll pigments and cause brown discoloration, and it cross-links some of the gluten protein ...

center 40–60% (somewhat moister than freshly baked bread). Pasta is sometimes cooked just short of this point ...

can often be improved by adding some form of acid (lemon juice, cream of tartar, citric acid) to adj ...

each other just after they’re added to the cooking water. Their dry surfaces absorb the small amount ...

Couscous, Dumplings, Spätzle, Gnocchi Couscous Couscous is an elegantly simple pasta that appears to have ...