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The summer after I graduated college I put off being a real person and ran off to Tuscany to intern on an organic farm. It was a perfect four months: I planted. I harvested. I ate double my weight in the best Italian food I've ever tasted.
That food was prepared by the farm's cook, a woman named Graziella. As is the Italian way, pasta was often at the center of the table. But on those hot, Tuscan afternoons in late July, when the temperature inched up to 100 ºF, not even the Italians wanted hot bowls of pasta. So Graziella made pasta salad instead.
But Graziella's pasta salad didn't taste like the many I'd eaten at backyard barbecues here in the States. There was an undertone to them, a background flavor that was in every bite, but was hard to identify. When I finally cobbled together enough Italian to ask Graziella how she made her pasta, I realized what I was tasting: garlic. But not minced or crushed or sliced garlic. No, Graziella used theof garlic. And she found that essence in just one clove, which she rubbed on the inside of the bowl that she'd eventually be tossing the pasta in.too. This is how it's done: Grab a bowl , peel a garlic clove, halve it, and rub the cut side of each half all over the inside surface of the bowl.
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