Pasta, Italian for "Hot Damn That's Good!"

You're on a deserted island, alone, shipwrecked far from civilization. Except for the full kitchen located inexplicably on the southern beach. If the ample pantry, located down the hall from the wine cellar, could only contain one food, what would it be?

For me, as long as I had plenty of sauce to go with it, I would choose pasta. It's, bar none the world's most perfect food. It's easy to prepare, cheaper than the water you boil it in (in Baltimore City), and is good with pretty much anything dumped on top of it. I'm just as happy with a labored-over, home-cooked sauce as I am with a can of Chunky brand Chicken Mushroom Chowder glopped on top. Pasta takes the ordinary and makes it...not as ordinary.

Cold or hot, drenched or dry, it doesn't matter. The mouth feel is the same, which is what pasta nuts are after. It's the only food I can think of where shape is just as important as content. Same stuff, different shape, vastly different experience. It's the ultimate tactile flavor-delivery system. By itself it's good, but load it up with passengers, and it's still good, but now it's also great. So try some of your favorite pasta today!

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