Good Eats: Use Your Noodle II

Alton explores a type of food enjoyed worldwide: filled pasta. He offers a recipe for fresh pasta and crafts it into Ravioli and Tortellini, dropping in on the always acerbic W along the way for some tips on what to look for in a dough roller.

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Episode Info

Episode number: 6x12
Production Number: EA1F15
Airdate: Wednesday January 15th, 2003

Writer: Alton Brown

Uncredited

Vickie Eng
As W

Recurring

Main Cast

Alton Brown
As Himself

Recap

Alton contemplates a pull down world map, wondering if there is a noodle dish common to all cultures. He answers himself by citing Poland’s pierogi, China’s wonton, Japan’s pot stickers and others: the vareniki of Ukraine, the Jewish kreplach and the Korean mandu, Siberia’s pelmeni and Italy’s ravioli. All of them are filled noodle dumplings...

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Episode Notes

Cards

The word macaroni is derived from the Greek maka, meaning “blessed.”
Water is not an ingredient in dry pasta, although it is sued to shape the dough and then removed during the drying process.
Pasta’s original use was as an extender in soups and some desserts.
From 1700 to 1785 pasta shops quadrupled in Naples, resulting in pasta drying everywhere, including the streets, on rooftops and balconies.
Franco-American, the first company to can pasta and sauce, boasted using a French recipe.