This is a grandmother story....and it's about an inspiring day for my grandson Zachary. We made pasta with a machine and King Arthur Pasta flour. We were mixing and then came passing the dough through the pasta machine to make lasagna. He pushed it carefully through watching every little step he did. Then I said to him ..."So Zachary do you want linguini or fetucini (showing him premade boxes). He said linguini and so then came the fun. We picked up the lasagna noodle. I showed him how he needed to hold the pasta to feed the machine. I reminded him he had to catch it so we could dry properly and not get it all tangled. He put his hand in position. Eyes watching very carefully as the linguini to be began its journey through the machine. As soon as it was drapping over his little hand... he look at the linguini and then looked up at me and quickly said, "incredible" ... it's incredible. We finished the process. Later after the liguini was cooked, drained and plated, I said to him. Do you want to grate the cheese? He wondered what I meant as he asked if I had the parmesan shaker. " Oh when you are here, we grate the cheese fresh." I handed him a hand held grater, parmesan cheese and showed him the motion to grate. Again enthralled by the procedure, he looked up to me and said, " I know what I'm going to be! As he proceeded to say, "a cook." A day I will not forget. He is 6 1/2 years young. Our project today was potato bread and finish pulla dough for at his next visit, he will learn how to braid the dough.

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