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Episode 7: Subjunctive - Someone's in the kitchen with Pulcinella

Episode 7: Subjunctive - Someone's in the kitchen with Pulcinella

Released Friday, 6th July 2007
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Episode 7: Subjunctive - Someone's in the kitchen with Pulcinella

Episode 7: Subjunctive - Someone's in the kitchen with Pulcinella

Episode 7: Subjunctive - Someone's in the kitchen with Pulcinella

Episode 7: Subjunctive - Someone's in the kitchen with Pulcinella

Friday, 6th July 2007
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  • asset title: Episode 7: Subjunctive - Someone's in the kitchen with Pulcinella
  • filename: ra_07.mp3
  • track number: 7/22
  • time: 9:04
  • size: 7.44 MB
  • bitrate: 112 kbps

In 'Someone's in the kitchen with Pulcinella,' we conclude our discussion of the subjunctive with a summary of all the rules. Remember the WHEIRDO verbs? We'll review all the tenses of the subjunctive: the presente, passato, imperfetto, and trapassato and contrast these with the use of the formal imperative. Pulcinella will get down with the imperative as he cooks up a delicious spaghetti frittata! Gnam, gnam, gnam. Let's listen ...

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Frittata di spaghetti

Benvenuti, radioascoltatori
Al programma di cucina di Pulcinella

Volete un piatto di gnocchetti?
E invece no!
Vi farò una frittata di spaghetti!

Prenda, signora, cinque uova,
Della frittata son la prova,
Unisca pepe, sale e pecorino
Non troppo, solo un pochino

Gli spaghetti cari amici
Son allegri e son felici
Di poter essere uniti
Ad ingredienti assai squisiti.

Tagli 80 grammi di salame--
Napoletano, il migliore del reame--
E in cubetti regolari
Della provola di Bari

Ma non è finita qui, amici cari:
Se la provola non è abbastanza,
Possa il provolone dar la sostanza.

Ecco a voi la frittata di Pulcinella!
Non vi sembra che sia bella?
Ah, no? Volete un altro ingrediente
Qualcosa di più potente?

E allora, signora, aggiunga un bel peperoncino calabrese--
Ma attenzione che la vostra bocca farà fuoco per un mese!


Spaghetti Frittata

Welcome, radio listeners,
to Pulcinella's kitchen program

Are you wanting a plate of little gnocchi?
No, instead,
I'll make you a spaghetti frittata!

Take five eggs, ma'am,
They're the proof of the frittata,
Add pepper, salt and pecorino
Not too much, just a bit.

Spaghetti, dear friends,
Is merry and happy
To be brought together
With such exquisite ingredients.

Cut 80 grams of salame--
Neapolitan, the best in the land--
And some provola from Bari
In uniform little cubes.

But that's not the end, dear friends:
If the provola's not enough,
Let provolone lend it substance.

Behold Pulcinella's spaghetti frittata!
Don't you think it looks grand?
Oh no? You want some other ingredient?
Something more potent?

Well, then, ma'am, add a lovely Calabrese pepper--
But watch out! your mouth will be on fire for a month!



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