Remembering How to Make Pasta e Fagioli

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Mark Bitten creates a recipe for pasta e fagioli as he is cooking. After preparing the dish, he consults an Italian cooking encyclopedia to find several regional recipes that varied but ended in just about the same place...
...Pasta and beans — pasta e fagioli, the “pasta fazool” of the iconic pre-Sopranos paean to all things Italo-American, “That’s Amore,” where it is elegantly rhymed with “drool” — is just the ticket when you’re feeling unwell but not so unwell that the only possible dinner is boiled rice.

Full Story: Gaining Strength from Pasta e Fagioli; by Mark Bittman, on The New York Times




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