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Yesterday the Los Angeles Times announced the results of a recent taste test of imported Italian spaghetti. The paper's five-person panel sampled 16 brands. I didn't even know there were 16 brands of imported Italian pasta to begin with. I should start paying more attention when I'm browsing the aisles of the grosseria.The panel chose spaghetti because it was the one shape available from every pasta maker. During the blind taste test, they evaluated the spaghetti for texture, mouth-feel, intrinsic flavor and ability to deliver flavor. The flavor delivered, in this case, was a fruity olive oil, which the panel's leader felt was a good gauge as to how the spaghetti would also carry the flavor of a sauce.
The winner, as you know by now, was Latini spaghetti, an artisanal pasta from Marche. What's interesting to me about the results is that the less expensive Latini in the red box beat out the company's top-shelf variety, Latini Senatore Cappelli spaghetti, which came in sixth.
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11-30-2006 @1:47PM Debbie Ridpath Ohi said... I just discovered Slashfood and have become an instant drooling fan. (Er...drooling because of your brilliant posts, of course, not because I drool on a regular basis...)
I've given you a plug in my blog today.
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1-11-2007 @3:08AM Solomon said... Thank you for this. I'm one of the dry goods gurus at http://www.zingermansdeli.com and this not only interested me because I sell four of those pastas (including the two winners), but it led me to:
The most complete website on the industrial production of pasta I've ever seen (woo hoo!) - http://www.professionalpasta.it
Eat fearlessly.
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