Gourmet Traveller

PASTA DISASTER

More flour! I bark at my partner as he kneads a gloopy, sticky mass on our kitchen benchtop. Tensions rise and beads of sweat dapple my brow. I picture my family’s disappointed faces when we turn up to lunch without handmade linguine as promised. More flour!

Just moments earlier, I had cracked egg after egg into a bowl and watched as recipe (because Nonna knows best) before making a mad dash to the corner store in search of more uova.

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