How to Eat Spaghetti Like a Pro
The true beauty of spaghetti, and all pasta, is its texture in your mouth, which you can only experience by wrapping it around itself on your fork. Nobody expects you to do this without a little pasta hangin out here and there, so don’t fret. Savor your noodles the Italian way. Here’s how:
Position your fork over to the side of the plate, towards the edge of your mound of spaghetti. Stab your fork in at a 90 degree angle. (The usual issue for non-Italians is that they stab the pasta at the top of the mound and then they get too much pasta on one forkful and don’t know what to do.)
Then–and you don’t need to stay at the 90 degree angle–keep the tips of the fork touching the plate and just twirl the pasta round and round until it’s mostly all on there. Lift fork. A few stray pieces will hand down.
Bring the fork to your face, stick it in your mouth, pull out the fork and inhale the low-hanging strands of pasta into your mouth without making any noise. Yes, I am serious. This isn’t a joke. Even Sophia Loren said, “Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.”