There are mysteries that every man carries a life hereafter. Mysteries that are not revealed even at death, when you think big step in return for an answer, at least, will be due. Spend a lifetime to ask 'Who', 'but as', 'but chiccazz', and that mystery escapes like a fish at the current time as the youth, as Berlusconi to justice.
Here.
I, here, now, I can tell.
I am one of those select few that one of these mysteries, perhaps the greatest, it has solved.
The mystery of the pasta sheet.
Why, all or almost all countries outside of Italy can not cook the pasta al dente.
I racked my brains for years there, I spent sleepless nights, I climbed the highest mountains, I spoke the language of angels (a moment ... I guess I'm beginning to plagiarize someone ...). But now I know. I know, fuck. I know.
Vilnius. Supermarket "Maxima". Saturday 20 December. Hours 20 and 15. Minute more, not minutes.
discover among the shelves of pasta, a bag of 500 grams of durum wheat semolina orecchiette, Montevergine Company, near Otranto. The orecchiette are not easily abroad. In Helsinki Stockmann sells only. This is an important discovery. It would also 'cim' rep. There are. I'm pleased with the broccoli. The olive oil we have it. Tonight we eat Puglia.
I go home. I put the water to boil and cook the garlic.
The short-faced. We're doing two broccoli like two balloons.
The water is boiling. I throw the dough. The label carries the canonical 7-8 minutes of cooking. We eat orecchiette al dente. As Maria Annunziata, protector of dragged, in charge.
My wife took possession of the package. He noted that the back is a sticker written in Lithuanian. An addition to the local importer, of course.
I think, that good, they want to translate into Lithuanian, so be sure that the auricles are prepared properly.
I wrong. Written and piercing as a blade, like a painful news of Paul Liguori, catches the eye.
is the cooking time.
Lithuanians, shame on them, have translated their own way.
In Lithuania, the cooking time for orecchiette is not the same.
Fuck, no is the same.
The sticker says, indeed decision: 10 minutes. 10.
pasta sheet is intentional, not negligent. If your are looking for.
This is an abomination. But now I know I can die in peace.
Because I know, my friends.
At the end of this troubled 2008, I know.
I know.
