So... it looks like today is World Pasta Day 🍝 What better way to celebrate pasta than exploring little-known types of pasta from all the regions of Italy?

Buckle up for a high-carb thread! 🧵1/21 Let's start from Sicily. If you're in Palermo, look for anelletti siciliani. This hoop-shaped pasta is baked in a casserole dish (timballo) with ricotta salata, tomato sauce, and heaps of fried eggplants. 🍆 2/21

Today I'm a little homesick, and for someone from Sicily, missing home means missing its wonderful desserts.

Buckle up for a wondrous thread of Sicilian pastries: 1/ Naturally, I *must* start with the king of Sicilian pastry: cannolo. Filled with ricotta cream and topped with Bronte pistachio, candied fruit, or chocolate chips, cannoli come in different sizes and are a staple of Sicilian pasticcerie. 2/

UNPOPULAR OPINION. 99% of my feed is lashing out at this post, but hear me out. The ACTUAL paper is presented as an attempt to replicate known concepts with large-scale quantitative methods. Indeed, the paper addresses its limitations vs. historical linguistics research! 1/8

https://twitter.com/Princeton/status/1296779082663964673

The article does not claim Groundbreaking Novelty Whoa This Has Never Been Done Before(TM). The tweet and the @physorg_com article do. @kennysmithed here explains it perfectly. 2/8

https://twitter.com/kennysmithed/status/1297496082092613637?s=20