{"id":4225,"date":"2022-08-03T10:35:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T08:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2022\/08\/03\/the-priest-chokers\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T08:35:07","slug":"the-priest-chokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2022\/08\/03\/the-priest-chokers\/","title":{"rendered":"The priest-chokers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]Fancy some <strong>priest-chokers<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>There are many types of pasta, with the most peculiar and imaginative names.<br \/>\nBut perhaps no one like the <em>strozzaprete<\/em>, literally translated into &#8220;priest-choker&#8221;, typical of Central Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The origin of this name is not known with certainty. Some think it comes from women&#8217;s &#8220;wish&#8221; for clerics to choke on it when they used to stop by the house to collect the rent (before the Unification, the Church ruled over a large portion of central Italy).<\/p>\n<p>Others derive this name from the proverbial voracity of the priests, so greedy and gluttonous that they frantically eat to the point of suffocating.<\/p>\n<p>Another hypothesis, less violent, is that the name derives from the particular way of pinching the dough during the preparation of this type of pasta.<\/p>\n<p>Well, speaking of pasta, I do have some excellent equipment to make it.<br \/>\nAlso, don&#8217;t choke people.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]Fancy some priest-chokers? There are many types of pasta, with the most peculiar and imaginative names. But perhaps no<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}