Linguine pescatore: linguine served with seafood.

Linguine (also spelled linguini) are a form of pasta — flat like fettuccine and trenette, but narrow like spaghetti. The name means "little tongues" in Italian. Linguine originates from the Campania region of Italy.^{[citation needed]} Linguine alle vongole (with clams) is a popular use of this sort of pasta. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 936 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 936 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... == Fettuccine (literally little ribbons in Italian) is a type of pasta. ... Trenette or trenne is a type of pasta. ... Cooked spaghetti in a bowl. ... For other uses, see Campania (disambiguation). ... Littleneck clams; the pictured mollusks are of the species Mercenaria mercenaria. ...

Preparing linguine

Linguine is close enough to spaghetti that the same basic methods can be applied.

For Dry Linguine (standard store-bought 1LB package)

• In a large cooking pot, bring 5 quarts of water, 2 teaspoons of salt (optional), and 2 teaspoons of olive oil (optional) to a rapid, rolling boil.
• Place linguine in the pot. Stir a bit if needed to ensure that all pasta is completely submerged
• Leave the pot un-covered, stirring the pasta occasionally to break up any clumps
• Cooking for 10 to 12 minutes or until al dente
• Drain the contents of the pot into a colander, discarding the cooking water

To stop the pasta from cooking further, run cold water through linguine in colander. In cooking, the adjective al dente (pronounced al DEN-tay) describes pasta and (less commonly) rice that have been cooked to be edible but still firm, or vegetables that are cooked to the tender crisp phase - still offering resistance to the bite, but cooked through. ...

The purpose of the salt is to slightly raise the boiling temperature of water above 212°F (100°C).

The purpose of the olive oil is to help keep the pasta from sticking to itself so much (The rolling boil will cause the oil to be deposited fairly evenly on the surface of the linguine)

Popular culture

In Chappelle's Show, the beatdown that Rick James took was stated to have "legs looking like linguine." Chappelles Show is an American comedy television series starring comedian Dave Chappelle. ...

In the Fox Show Bones (TV series), one of the characters, Special Agent Seeley Booth, makes a comment in which he jokingly uses the word linguine as a form of linguistic: "How about this for rhyming linguine; see you later, alligator." Bones is an American drama television series that premiered on the Fox Network on September 13, 2005. ...

In the Disney/Pixar's 2007 movie Ratatouille, Linguini is the name of a character, voiced by Lou Romano. Ratatouille (IPA pronunciation: [2]) is a 2007 animated feature film produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. ... Lou Romano born April 15 ,1972 in San Diego, California (USA). ...

In an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, Deborah loses her job after calling a Pizza advertising campaign character Professor 'Pete Za'. While consoling her, Ray says; "you know what you COULD have said though? You could have said 'Lyn-Guine', you know, with Spaghetti for the hair, and like, meatballs for the...(making 'breast cups' with his hands).

External links

• How to cook pasta with step-by-step pictures