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"aem" > wrote:

> Goomba38 wrote:
> >
> > What a perfectly horrible thing to do to innocent pasta! gads.
> > Goomba
>
> I sent an email to three Italian restaurants in the L.A. area. One now
> has about six locations because their first was so popular, but they
> are still several steps above an Olive Garden. The second is very well
> known but will never expand from its one place. It is regularly on
> lists of the best restaurants in L.A. The third (our favorite for
> Italian) is now on its third generation of family ownership and would
> be on anyone's list of the three best Italian places in SoCal.
>
> The first replied that they precook pasta because of the volume of
> business. The second said they partially precook dried pasta but cook
> to order their fresh pastas (the most popular being ravioli, tortellini
> and pappardelle). The third has yet to respond, which doesn't surprise
> me. It's the kind of place you go when you have the time to relax and
> enjoy, not to be in a hurry. I suspect that if they do precook any
> pasta they'd not want to admit it. -aem
>

Fresh pastas not being dried pasta, I can see preparing those fresh!
That would not be a problem at all. :-)
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Om.

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