Instructions: "First, sing the tenor part of an opera (preferably Verdi). Then go to a friends house and find a large mixing bowl. Lovingly place all the ingredients (per favore, not the spaghetti) into the bowl and mix with an available device - not your hands, please.

Meanwhile, cook your spaghetti in plenty of rapidly boiling water - but not until its mush, rather al dentissimo, on the hard side. Drain please.

Now, caro, take the largest available bowl and mix the steaming hot spaghetti and the sauce with speed and precision.

Put it on the table, pour a big glass of Brunello di Montalcino (at least twenty years old) and, for the moment, disregard the world around you."

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