Basta!

Some friends (Indian) tried making spaghetti last night. God alone knows what they ended up making, but it was different enough for their Italian roomies to say "Dont KILL Italian food!".

Reminds me of a pasta-making experiment from the Gurgaon days, when I happily added some indian spice (chaat masala probably) to standard arrabiata sauce. After eating which, J commented "This is not pasta, it's basta".

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P.S.: basta! (rhymes with pasta) is Italian for 'enough!' ... somewhat like our Hindi 'bas!'

Word Exchange

Claudio, my ever smiling tutor, has decided to begin this word-exchange programme with me.

Basically, once every few days, we will teach each other one new word ... his forte is Italian, and mine is English, of course...

Good fun... considering today's impromptu session clearly didn't stop at dictionary-like explanations...

Given that our past chats have been known to morph into long discussions about everything from India's languages to Hannibal's conquests, this is something one is looking forward to!