Chez Panisse Pasta, Pizza & Calzone by Alice Waters

My ideal diet is the All-Pasta Diet. This is a diet (or arguably a lifestyle) that consists of pasta for every meal of every day. It’s not great for a girl’s figure but it does wonders for her soul. The best way to follow this diet is to prepare a batch of fresh pasta dough that you store in the fridge and slowly chip away at over the next few days. In the morning you roll out, cut, and boil wide, irregular noodles while the tea is steeping. Then you cover the pasta in honey and pecorino and black pepper and start your day with strength. In the evening you come home and pour yourself a drink and, depending on the kind of day you had, either take everything in your crisper and chop it up and sauté it all in butter until it breaks down into a sauce that you can throw on top of the thick, simple fettuccini you made while the sauce cooked…or you make a simple dumpling filling of cheese and greens and an egg and maybe a little finely chopped garlic and some nutmeg and you spend an hour roll