{"id":175116,"date":"2023-02-09T11:07:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T17:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=175116"},"modified":"2023-02-09T14:12:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T20:12:30","slug":"how-to-eat-pasta-without-looking-like-a-putz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/leisure\/food-drink\/how-to-eat-pasta-without-looking-like-a-putz\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Eat Pasta Without Looking Like a Putz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are some foods that are difficult to eat non-awkwardly. They’re hard to pick up with your fork and hard to always get into your mouth in a single clean bite. Salad is one. Pasta, at least of the strand variety, is another.<\/p>\n

Whether or not you’re pounding your pasta properly may be of little import when you’re eating in the privacy of your own home. But when you’re on a date, and there’s someone sitting across from you, staring at your mouth, the question takes on a bit more urgency. You don’t want to get food on your face or your shirt. You want to impress, come off as well-mannered, and eat your pasta like a smooth operator.<\/p>\n

To do so, the big thing to know is that even if your place setting includes a spoon, knife, and fork, you’ll only be using that last utensil to eat your pasta. You’re not going to cut your spaghetti into pieces, and you’re not going to twirl it on a spoon. That latter point may be controversial, and if you’re an avowed spoon twirler, no one’s going to stop you from continuing the practice. But using a fork alone is the authentic Italian way to do things.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, follow the other dos and don’ts illustrated above. And maybe order the soup instead of the salad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are some foods that are difficult to eat non-awkwardly. They’re hard to pick up with your fork and hard to always get into your mouth in a single clean bite. Salad is one. Pasta, at least of the strand variety, is another. Whether or not you’re pounding your pasta properly may be of little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,42273],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-175116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-drink","category-living"],"featured_image_urls":{"reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Pasta-3-1-320x194.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175139,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175116\/revisions\/175139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175116"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=175116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}