How to Eat Pasta by Spinning a Fork : Italian Specialties

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Hi.
I'm John Coletta.

I'm the managing partner and
executive chef

of Quartino Ristorante here in Chicago.

We're located on the corner
of Ontario and State Street.

Today we're going to talk about how to
eat pasta by spinning it with a fork.

Now there's two methods.

The first method begins by just
taking the fork

and just ever so easily
putting it onto the plate.

OK? And as you can see,
you've completed the job.

Now, if we want even less,
obviously take less.

But the big piece is not
to be afraid of this.

Anybody can do this.
My kids do this all the time.

And as you can see,
it's easily achievable.

Another way to do it is you take a spoon
in your left hand if you're right handed

and now you place the spaghetti onto
the fork and continue to twirl this.

And as you can see, you've
got the same result.

The spoon acts as guidance.
OK?

The more seasoned pasta eater obviously

wants to show off and wants to do
this all by his self or herself.

OK? And you can see
how simple that is. OK?

And again, it shouldn't be intimidating.
OK?

Don't consider using a knife
by any means to cut the pasta,

but continuing to twirl it will give
you the results you're looking for.

Should you have a challenge,
take a nice size dinner spoon

and you can see it helps to guide you.

We'll do this.
Here we go one more time.

So we grab some pasta and I've
just tossed this pasta today

with some butter and cheese.

My kids love this.

This is a real simple way to do it.

And in fact, I taught my
children how to eat pasta

and they picked it up rather simply.

Okay, so you got this.

The one thing you want to make
sure is that you eat the pasta.

Boy, that's good.

I hope you enjoyed the video.

Again, I'm John Coletta.

I'm the executive chef and
managing partner here at Quartino.

I hope you enjoyed the wonderful videos
that I've prepared for you

and I look forward
to seeing you at Quartino.

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