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Perhaps someone can enjoy this address http://www.italianpasta.net/pages/tipidi.htm
There is a long list of different kinds of pasta, and their delicious names - for example farfalle = butterflies, or orecchiette = small ears or lumache= snails. A lot of course are meaningless, but if you are curious about some of them you can PM me.
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...you can PM meMy Dear, your English is really picking up, isn't it? Farfalle is butterflies? Oh, thank you--that is lovely! Much more so than what it is called here: bow-tie pasta. To me, the word farfalle brings to mind "fireflies"--so I like knowing that I wasn't so very far off the actual meaning! Oh--perhaps I should explain a bit about why I think of fireflies. Where I live, a great many people pronounce "fire" as "far". Which reminds me of one of the few jokes I can remember--one which probably only works in the Southern U.S.: Why were the Three Wise Men smudged with soot? Because they came from afar.
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>Well, after going up the creek on the attribution of the toothache line, I could use a good dose of pain medicine!
through happenstance, yesterday's wwftd was dol, a unit of pain measurement. it was just a coincidence... that's my story and I'm sticking to it... no, no, not the spanish inquistion!... aaarrrrrrgggggghh...
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farfalle = [pasta shaped like] butterflies
Interesting. In yiddish, farfel is a kind of noodle. [url]http://www.bartleby.com/61/72/F0037200.html[/url}: farfel: (PRONUNCIATION: färfl) NOUN: Noodles shaped like small grains or pellets. ETYMOLOGY: Yiddish farfl, from Middle High German varveln.
Can anyone put together whatever connection may exist?
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Keiva, is that farfel or fourfel? Congratulations, I think that's a new duplication record! Looks like we're all going through this new long-posting glitch, even when the rest of the site is running okay.
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and the bow tie pasta is used in Kasha varniska (sp?) where from is the varniska? its never made with any other shape pasta.
(a simple dish of cooked kasha (buckwheat groats) and bow tie pasta. the kasha is often cooked in broth rather than water, and its served as a side dish. i love buckwheat, so its one of my favorite ethnic foods)
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