02/07/2026
Following a number of enquiries regarding the origin of the glass jar as the correct vessel for pasta, the Pasta Club is pleased to present a selection of images from the photographic archive, recovered from a storage unit in Trastevere in circumstances we are not at liberty to discuss.
1. Luciano Pavarotti, Bagno Arcobaleno, Forte dei Marmi, 1987. Spaghetti al sugo. Third helping.
2. Unidentified lunch party, Capri, summer, year disputed. The Faraglioni had been standing for two million years and everyone at this table understood, without discussing it, that they were simply the latest in a very long line of people who had made the correct decision.
3. James Bond, location withheld, year classified. Ordered it shaken. Was told this is not how pasta works. Accepted the correction without comment, which those present described as out of character.
4. Slim Aarons, somewhere on the Tyrrhenian coast, 1974. He arrived at noon, was offered lunch, accepted, and did not leave until the following week, which he later described as the only correct response to the situation.
5. Alberto Sordi, Campo de’ Fiori, Rome, 1981. Described the jar as ‘l’unico contenitore con dignità.’ We have been unable to verify this, but choose to believe it.
6. Bettina Graziani, Sardegna, 1964.
She maintained, from the hammock, that time moves at a different speed when your feet are not touching the ground - a position which Aristotle, had he owned one, would almost certainly have reached independently.
