Update: I’m the one that doesn’t know pasta, apparently strozzapreti, can also mean a gnudi or gnocchi shaped pasta, or something that can get stuck in the throat and cut off breathing. There, I think we all (er, I) learned something today!
Or does New York Magazine not know their pasta?
They published an article today A Gno-Mistakes Pasta Primer and unless I’m sorely mistaken there’s quite the mistake in there.
The whole point is to teach people the difference between a gnocchi, gnocco fritto and a gnudi.
They say a gnudi can also be called a malfatti or a strozzapreti.
Unless I am sorely mistaken, strozzapreti means “priest strangler” and implies something long and skinny, not soft and mooshie like a gnudi.
To whit:
NY Mag’s piccie of a gnudi and reference to strozzapreti.
Discuss.
Ulla said,
September 25, 2006 @ 10:53 pm
I am not a pasta expert but I have gone to resturants that they have recommended and not been so impressed, but I love thier magazine otherwise.
Sher said,
September 26, 2006 @ 2:00 am
Hey, you tell ‘em!! They need to hire you!
Julie said,
September 26, 2006 @ 8:39 am
Perhaps you can go eat at Maremma (which sounds like a wacky place, but wacky in a good way), order the strozzapreti, and see what you’re served. And then report back to us.
ann said,
September 26, 2006 @ 8:14 pm
as you can now see, I was wrong, but Julie, your suggestion is sublime, and I promise, for the good of my readers, I shall follow up on that! (and report back, of course).