Pasta Aglio e Olio by Andrew Rea

Pasta aglio e olio is something very special: eight simple ingredients (nine, if you count boiling water) coming together to make something greater than the sum of their parts.

Inspired by Chef

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There’s a reason the image of a twirl of pasta around a carving fork has been permanently emblazoned on my left forearm: this has been, far and away, the most important episode of the show. The idea came to me around 7:30 p.m. as I was gearing up to leave work, and it dawned on me that while I already had all the necessary ingredien…