Lost all credibility when he said you have to stir pasta continuously. That’s idiotic. I didn’t read the rest of the article.
This seems like an inner monologue by the writer that wants to share it with an audience that doesn’t care.
Rolling boils are hard to lance...
My red editor's pen, however, was itching for action, which became a distraction.
And by the way, is this a sentence? “As when an 18-wheeler meets a sports car that has wandered across the center line, R.I.P.” (This is not the only such disjointed collection of words.)
A fine, clean tasting soup is made of a few “right” ingredients. Adding every ingredient you can think of makes for a glutenous, unpalatable hodge-podge, no matter how you stir it.