Give us pasta and more pasta!

Indian food is great. It tastes good it smells good and it looks good. And it is cheap. For 1.5 EUR per day the canteen serves four hearty meals involving varying degrees of spiciness. It is has been about 20 years (back in school when I stayed all afternoons waiting for my parents to pick me up) that I got meal at 4 pm which here is called “High tea”. For many of you a simple mention of the Indian food invokes mouthwatering memories of your recent visit to an Indian restaurant (which many of us do not do too often). However being stuffed with dals, koftas, rice and raitas for the last two weeks and consuming annual intake of spices per day our stomachs and tongues have requested a change. Due to the big Italian minority on campus and the reputation of the Italian kitchen pasta was chosen as the European ambassador to make inroads into the Indian kitchen. As a result an Italian guy taught 15 or so cooks at our mess how to make it. Result – we all got slightly overcooked and sweetish dish with a bit of a Chinese taste. But it was great! You never know how unpretentious you can become. Stay tuned!