One course was a single large raviolo filled with ricotta, spinach and a raw egg that poached while the pasta cooked.

Qwilleran, who had never encountered a plate of macaroni and cheese he didn't like, ordered the special with sanguine expectation but found the pasta cooked to the consistency of tapioca pudding.

Popular and well-managed Western-style restaurant that has gained an excellent reputation for its great salads, pastas, pizzas and steaks, cooked by a young and talented chef.

Jake served calamari and fettucine, and the judges found the calamari underwhelming, and the pasta correctly cooked al dente, but clumpy.

A half-order of one of the pasta dishes made a pleasing starter, the pasta cooked properly in every case.

With the pasta finally cooked, Jacobs settled at the square dining-room table he had bought at Goodwill.

THE flour-enriched water in which pasta has cooked - the shorthand is "pasta cooking water" - appears only occasionally in recipes.

Why cook the pasta and spinach separately when you can cook them together with no loss of flavor and a net gain of time?

The hot pasta barely cooked the salmon in the plate, and the combination was engaging.

Once the pasta had boiled -and fresh pasta like this can cook in seconds - the group moved to the adjacent dining room for the rest of the meal.