Quirk Takes on Pasta

Those wonderful folks who invented the classic/vampire/zombie mashups have turned their attention to pasta. The result, The Geometry of Pasta was featured on NPR‘s All Things Considered last night and rose to #106 on Amazon’s sales rankings (from a lowly #8,529 yesterday).

One of my favorite travel memories is wandering the aisles of a grocery store in Florence with an Italian speaker who translated the evocative names for me (‘priest strangler,” “bridegrooms, “larks tongues”). Turns out they are not just quixotic; there’s a reason for those shapes.

And, of course, there is an addictive book trailer.


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The Geometry of Pasta
Caz Hildebrand, Jacob Kenedy
Retail Price: $24.95
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Quirk Books – (2010-08-17)
ISBN / EAN: 1594744955 / 9781594744952

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