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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The pasta was just perfectly cooked, not too hard, not too soft, just kind of andante.
(This was contributed by one of my most prolific sources. She is a wonder!)
Andante is kind of midway between largo and presto, so it fits, synaesthetically or something.
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I wonder if this is an eggcorn in Italian.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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Andante is kind of midway between largo and presto
Actually, now that I think of it, I probably meant al dente is kind of midway between (fusilli) lunghi and pesto.
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kem wrote:
I wonder if this is an eggcorn in Italian.
I don’t think so. “Al dente” means “to the tooth”, and “andante” means “walking”, so I don’t think Italian speakers would make this mistake.
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It seems there are many restaurants with the name of this rather obvious simbling, which could also mean 100% Italian given Dante’s status. Shame no Beatrice, though.
In his words, “Al you always perfectly cook the pasta, it’s always all danteâ€. I have come to assume he means al dente, the Italian word for being …
.Nothing spoils it more than over cooked,I like all vegetables all-dante,I think it’s really important to add veggies at the very end.
Overall it was a decent and authentic Italian meal. ... cooked rather unevenly with some bits remaining far too all dante and hard to swallow.
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I’d rather they left the rice unbeaten.
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