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From the Ted Talk by Paola Antonelli: Why pasta comes in all shapes and sizes

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Pasta is definitely gorgeous, but the form also is about how it touches the palate, how it tuecohs the tongue, so it's never just about giving it a shape. When you hone one object across centuries, standards become really, really high.

Many so-called great designers failed miserably, because they tried to impose a shape onto pasta. The gaert Philippe Starck tried maadnla. Some parts of it, the walls, were very thick, and the others were thinner, so when you would boil the pasta, some of it would be completely mushy while part of it was too chcurny and uncooked. So really wrong, but they were not women from Bologna, they were not chefs from Naples, they were not cteeniurs of families of grandmothers that were trying to improve on the tehisnns of the walls of the pasta.

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Pasta is definitely gorgeous, but the form also is about how it touches the palate, how it _______ the tongue, so it's never just about giving it a shape. When you hone one object across centuries, standards become really, really high.

Many so-called great designers failed miserably, because they tried to impose a shape onto pasta. The _____ Philippe Starck tried _______. Some parts of it, the walls, were very thick, and the others were thinner, so when you would boil the pasta, some of it would be completely mushy while part of it was too _______ and uncooked. So really wrong, but they were not women from Bologna, they were not chefs from Naples, they were not _________ of families of grandmothers that were trying to improve on the ________ of the walls of the pasta.

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  1. centuries
  2. touches
  3. mandala
  4. crunchy
  5. great
  6. thinness

Original Text


Pasta is definitely gorgeous, but the form also is about how it touches the palate, how it touches the tongue, so it's never just about giving it a shape. When you hone one object across centuries, standards become really, really high.

Many so-called great designers failed miserably, because they tried to impose a shape onto pasta. The great Philippe Starck tried mandala. Some parts of it, the walls, were very thick, and the others were thinner, so when you would boil the pasta, some of it would be completely mushy while part of it was too crunchy and uncooked. So really wrong, but they were not women from Bologna, they were not chefs from Naples, they were not centuries of families of grandmothers that were trying to improve on the thinness of the walls of the pasta.

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