This one's for +Margie Kleerup — some discussion of pasta, cooking, and some of the science behind it all.
The Food Lab: A New Way to Cook Pasta?
It turns out that not only do you not need a large volume of water to cook pasta, but in fact, the water does not even have to be boiling. Wait. What? Let me explain. I, and every other trained cook I know have been taught that when cooking pasta, you need to have a large pot of boiling water. If my wife turned out to be right about this, just think of the pastabilities! This could turn my whole pasta-cooking regime on its head. Some serious test…
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Pasta la vista, baby.
Ah. That was the headline I was looking for.