• Julie Mcmahon
• 18 Mar, 2021

While I didn’t know it at the time, my parents—bless them, truly—committed many “crimes” against pasta when I was growing up, including adding oil to the cooking water and rinsing it with water from the tap as it sat in the colander. Drizzling oil into the water—supposedly to ensure the noodles wouldn’t stick together—made the pasta extra slippery, while rinsing them under a running faucet was even more of a guarantee that no sauce could stick.
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