pasta casera

This is an interior of the restaurant I showed you yesterday, Il Vero Mangiare.
You know what he's doing here?



He's making fusilli. That in itself is pretty astounding to me. But the way he's doing it is by taking squares of dough and rolling them around a metal rod taken from a broken umbrella. You know--those pieces that always break loose and dangle, threatening to poke you in the eye. Well, next time your umbrella does that, you can snap the rod off and think to yourself, "This will make a hella fine pasta-making utensil."