I dug deep to find the answer to the only question burning a hole in all of our minds since March: Where the fuck is all the bucatini?! The answer — which includes Big Pasta intrigue, Coen Brothers-y backstabbing, & De Cecco dodging me — may surprise u... https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/2020-bucatini-shortage-investigation.html

feat: Bowen Yang validating my search for bucatini, a chef telling me that the FDA banned bucatini because people kept eating their straws, my mom writing an all caps email to Italians, and me eventually getting whacked by Big Pasta https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/2020-bucatini-shortage-investigation.html

by far most entertaining interview during all of this was Rosario Del Nero who really encouraged me to see the whole bucatini situation as a Sopranos-esque conspiracy https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/2020-bucatini-shortage-investigation.html

big ups to my mom, a nurse practitioner who got vaccinated today!!!, for confirming my bucatini suspicions back in the fall by writing the most mom energy email of all time to De Cecco https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/2020-bucatini-shortage-investigation.html

....:still no word from De Cecco. If you or your loved ones work or know anyone who works for De Cecco pls email me!! [email protected] https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/2020-bucatini-shortage-investigation.html

here is a photo of my mom, a nurse practitioner, getting vaxxed today after inadvertently blowing the whistle on Big Pasta

thank u all for sharing your personal tales of bucatini woe. i promise to keep fighting for noodle justice. & those of u telling me it is “so bougie New York media” of me not to ...own a bronze-die extruder/elaborate pasta-maker to craft my own bucatini ....thank u for the lols