Today I discovered something truly wonderful: bucatini al cacio e pepe. I mean, the translation in the menu said cheese and pepper, so I should have known what I was going to get, but you never know what kind of cheese it will be, and so I was nervous when I ordered because what if it was some kind of stinky smelly cheese? But no, it was mild, salty, and just like Kraft Mac n' Cheese. The pepper added a hint of maturity to the hole mess.
And then there was the bucatini: spaghetti with a hole down the middle, like if you took one of these noodles and cut it into one-inch slices? You would get the exact pasta Kraft puts in their box. But here it's these thick tubes that you can roll onto your fork.
The meal brought happy flashbacks of cheap meals during grad school, but felt much more sophisticated. Yum.
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