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March 13, 2007
Pasta for Baby Card Sharks
Scrounging around the cupboards this weekend for something to cook Anya for lunch, I came across a box of "Pokerina" pasta which I had picked up on my last trip to Italy. I can't imagine you would ever find this pasta shape sold in America, where gentle, benign stars and alphabets rule the day in the realm of miniature pastas. But, there it was on the shelf at the farmacia, and I took some home as a souvenir.
At 17 months, Anya has thrown off her pasta training wheels for some time, graduating to advanced noodling -- rice vermicelli, penne, spaghetti, spirale, fusilli, and orecchiette, among myriad other shapes. But, she still enjoyed these gambling-inspired morsels mixed with butter and grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, even if they left her with a bit of a poker face. Ba-dum-dum.
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Posted by Josh Friedland on Mar 13, 2007 in Dining In | Permalink
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Ha. That photo is adorable!
Posted by: Luisa at Mar 14, 2007 12:44:01 PM
Josh,
My son and I would like to let you know about our blog - designed to help a veg-phobic seven year old to learn to like vegetables. We are munching, baking, frying and stirring our way through the A to Z of vegetables, using recipes sent to our blog from people around the world. Since January we have had over 7000 visitors and loads of recipes which Mum cooks and Freddie rates (the ultimate pint-sized restaurant critic).
I see that Anya is a little younger than Freddie and is unlikely to become a fussy eater but just in case - see the blog if you have time.
Thank you
Freddie and his mum Charlotte
Posted by: Freddie at Mar 20, 2007 5:15:28 AM
Several 100-foot wide sunny-side up 
