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Good Eats: Pantry Raid I: Use Your Noodle
Alton delves into the pantry. Once a stalwart defender against inconsistent markets and winter shortages, it has now become a refuge for ancient canned goods and half-empty boxes of the fad of the day. But it doesn't have to be that way and Alton aims to prove it, in the first of a series of shows. The topic: dry noodles.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 1x11 Production Number: EA1A11 Airdate: Wednesday September 15th, 1999 |
Recap
In the beginning, in the days before the minivan and the mini-mart, Alton tells us, the pantry was insurance against starvation. Its dried, cured and canned provender offered a refuge from seasonal market inconsistencies, like bonds in a bear market. Today the pantry is still the culinary port in a storm, a kind of secret garden. Many people allow their panties to become dilapidated refuges for half empty boxes of power bars and cans that date to the Carter administration. But the pantry doesn’t have to be this way, its shabby state is reversible and it can once again be the source of... Good Eats!..Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Cards
- Rigata means “stripe”. Dozens of different pasta styles are rigatas.
- Life is a combination of magic and pasta - Federico Fellini
- For a plate of spaghetti, he’d leave home. For a woman? Never. - Mrs. Pavarotti
- Italian for “to the tooth” al dente describes pasta cooked until it offers slight resistance.
- The greener the {olive} oil, the fruitier the flavor.
Pantry Raid I: Use Your Noodle
The episode title contains two bits of wordplay. Pantry Raid is based on the long held college tradition among frat boys of sneaking into sorority houses to steal underwear - a "panty raid." Use Your Noodle is a colloquialism meaning use your brain; Alton's goal in the episode is to get his viewers you "use their noodles" about "using their noodles" by educating them about dry pasta.
The episode title contains two bits of wordplay. Pantry Raid is based on the long held college tradition among frat boys of sneaking into sorority houses to steal underwear - a "panty raid." Use Your Noodle is a colloquialism meaning use your brain; Alton's goal in the episode is to get his viewers you "use their noodles" about "using their noodles" by educating them about dry pasta.
Cultural References
Alton: ... a vermicelli bearing Johnny Appleseed
John Chapman was an early American conservationist who planted apple trees throughout Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Legends depict him as a wanderer who planted trees randomly. The truth is a little different: Appleseed died the owner of millions of dollars worth of apple orchards. But some legends last and last. Alton likens Marco Polo's legendary spread of pasta throughout the world to Chapman's wanderings. Like Chapman's, the Marco Polo story contains a lot of myth and distortion.
John Chapman was an early American conservationist who planted apple trees throughout Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Legends depict him as a wanderer who planted trees randomly. The truth is a little different: Appleseed died the owner of millions of dollars worth of apple orchards. But some legends last and last. Alton likens Marco Polo's legendary spread of pasta throughout the world to Chapman's wanderings. Like Chapman's, the Marco Polo story contains a lot of myth and distortion.
Don Quixote supposedly said, “Hunger is the best sauce,”...
Don Quixote is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra between 1605 and 1615; it is generally considered the first modern novel and it has contributed to plays, short stories and films. Memes from the novel are scattered throughout popular culture; this quote is just one of them. Probably the most famous contribution of the novel is the concept of ‘tilting at windmills.’
Don Quixote is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra between 1605 and 1615; it is generally considered the first modern novel and it has contributed to plays, short stories and films. Memes from the novel are scattered throughout popular culture; this quote is just one of them. Probably the most famous contribution of the novel is the concept of ‘tilting at windmills.’
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