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    Pasta Salad Rehab

    Aug 07, 2018 3 minutes
    BY ANNIE PETITO

    Mention pasta salad and most folks think of a hodgepodge of overly firm noodles, raw broccoli florets, and spongy canned black olives, all drenched in bottled Italian dressing. That’s why my colleagues looked gleeful when I—not one of them—got the assignment of trying to rehab this sorry dish. But then I thought, I spend a lot of time perfecting hot pastas (often for this magazine), so why not give some attention to a cold one?

    Before I started cooking, I settled on fusilli. Its corkscrew shape would

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