CHAPTER 7
EMOTIONAL OBSTACLES
Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.
MAE JEMISON, AMERICAN ENGINEER, PHYSICIAN, AND FORMER NASA ASTRONAUT
When my daughter was a toddler, she preferred to eat penne pasta because it was the only one that would stay on her fork. Keeping spaghetti on her fork, not to mention pronouncing it, was frustrating. The skill of managing a forkful of spaghetti does take patience, a trait many toddlers don’t possess.
Enter Dan Pashman, the host of the James Beard Award–winning podcast Sporkful. Pashman’s goal was to make the ideal pasta shape. What would make it ideal according to Pashman? It would have to ...
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