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Look what you made me do @Syzygies! I now have my very own bigolaro. Now this isn't just any old acquisitive KK shopping channel purchase. No. Our place in Italy is in a town called Padova and one of their specialities is ragu di corte with bigoli. I make that ragu very well, to the extent that Italians ask me for my recipe. The bigolaro is named for the pasta, bigoli, that goes with ragu di corte. It is an extruded pasta, slightly thicker than spaghetti. And the best bit of all? The factory is less than an hour's drive away so we made the trip to Marano Vicentino to pick up this beauty. I hope to have time to try it out on our next trip. I just bought two dies but look what there was to choose from. Wasn't I good to be so restrained?

I use my 16 inch a lot because it is so easy for me in the winter to roll it right in front of the sliding glass door. I can tend it without putting on a jacket or even stepping outside. Love it.

It was freezing cold in Italy this last week but I hadn't used my 16 since November and thought I ought to heat it through. I didn't have high hopes for being able to fit our dinner on it in one go but it cooked all 20 wings or so in a one'er. Brawny Bambino indeed! I have been meaning to ask Dennis if he can make a better/more stable top rack. Do others who own a 16 think that could work or is there just too little space to be worth it?

Thank you, I just needed a gentle push like that to get over the wall and see what's on the other side, it all makes sense to me now. We took down 15 large trees in our yard this past year because the garden wasn't receiveing enough light, I envy your spot. In my area when I'm driving back from the grocer there's a sign posted along the road beside a large cranberry bog welcoming/inviting those for community gardening, however I'm not at all famiiar with lot sizes or if a waiting list in force. The town is called Halifax, pretty sure there must be a village or town about in merry old England sprouting the same name. Well, since the trees are gone a bit of expansion is due, and like you I will endeavor once the sun is more comprimising to venture out with my spade and create another spot. Funny thinking about rhubarb, I remember quite vividly my first taste of it, my grandmother handed me a stalk from her garden when I was 4ish and said try this, quite the surprise, I'm not sure if I spit it out or was to afraid, anyhow it was a crossroad you never forget. No watering ay, you lucky girl, no matter the spicket and hose for moi are always within reach. May the soil rise to meet you may the wind be gentle where you plant may the sun be warm and plenty to your crops and the rain fall softly upon your fields and until we speak again, may GOD hold your rhubarb in the hollow of his hand.