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Download Episode Let’s talk about noodles. With the winning combination of flour and liquid at the core of every noodle, they show up in countless cuisines around the world. From the dozens of pasta varieties in Italy to rice noodles of Vietnam, to the soba and ramen noodles of Japan, it’s a wonder how something with such humble ingredients could take so many different forms! I recently read the book “On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta” in which author Jen Lin-Liu travels along the Silk Road, searching for the evolution of the noodle from east to west. After salivating at the turn of every page, I had an idea. What if I made 2017 my year noodles and learned about this versatile culinary creation in its many different forms? Better yet, what if I learned about and made each type of noodle with a different person?! Welcome to the Noodle Project. In this series, I will arm myself with a new noodle recipe each episode, invite a friend over, and we will learn about and make the noodles together. Simmer was created to discover the connection between food and people, and this year, The Noodle Project will explore the connections we have with each other and the world around us. For the first noodle, I wanted to start with something simple and relatively familiar. I decided on tagliatelle, a long egg noodle about a quarter to a third of an inch wide that originates in the Bologna region of northern Italy.There’s something so sexy about the rich yellow color and the silky texture of this type of pasta, and I was excited to try my hand at making it. I invited my friend Adam Paccione over to make tagliatelle with me. Adam is originally from New York state, but he moved to Bozeman a few years ago and now co-owns a popular pizza joint called Red Tractor. To learn more about Red Tractor go to http://www.redtractorpizza.com/ On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta: https://www.amazon.com/Noodle-Road-Beijing-Rome-Pasta/dp/159448726X Tagiatelle Recipe: http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-fresh-pasta-from-scratch-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn- Bolognese Recipe: http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Anna-Nannis-Ragu-alla-Bolognese Sources: http://www.cliffordawright.com/caw/food/entries/display.php/topic_id/16/id/20/7 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2016/oct/11/spag-bol-and-other-crimes-against-ragu-alla-bolognese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagliatelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolognese_sauce Music: http://www.purple-planet.com