January 6, 2025 • 9 mins
Achille, our favorite chef from AMA in New Jersey, helps us settle a pasta debate!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know, we interview the biggest stars and music and
TV and film, but sometimes we have a guest on
our show that is just a step above all of them.
This next guy you're about to meet is a good
friend of our show, and we don't remember his family
as he is now a member of ours. We always
talk about his restaurant, his family's restaurant AMA in New Jersey.
(00:26):
It's one of our favorite places of all time. And
he's just the most delightful human being on the planet Earth.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And he's my brother.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Please welcome to the show that one and only come
forth the good morning. By the way, Hi, not to
be confused with Chef Lettie.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
They do sound a.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Little sound like him.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Aki. It's so great to hear your voice.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And thank you, by the way, for an incredible Christmas
Eve with your family.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
How much fun was that?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Oh? Oh my god, I told me three days they
were Cooper eight and Tombla I was just great. I
would do it on the show one day.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, Tombla is It's like the Italian version of bingo, right, yes, and.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Half the table there were like fifteen people twenty people
at half the table could not speak English. They got
in the fight they were about to. If there was
a gun, there would have there would been gunshots. Right,
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yes, the show, I'm heale.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
It's not Polkino, right, no, no, no, it's tombola. It's
an Aldose tradition. So at the end of the night,
when everybody's pretty much had a lot to eat and drunk,
you play tombola and like here, we have to say
it in Italian and English because you know, some people
(01:50):
understand the numbers, but every number is a meeting, and
in Naples we call out the meaning and everybody already
know the number. But it's a lot of fun, is that.
Oh he cheated the number came out, it didn't come out.
And it's the one big argument across the table.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's the best, the best fight you'll ever have. All right, Okay,
so let's get to work over the holidays. Akide I
heard a debate online about spaghetti. People who break spaghetti
in half so it will in their mind fit into
the pot of water.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Mm hmm, I got this bums already.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, okay, Oh there's the music now, we don't we
don't want to insult anyone, but at the same time
we do want to. We do want to say, hey,
Akill is from the old country. He's from not bully.
He's here to tell us why it's important to get
a big enough pot to fit your spaghetti full of
water and not break it in half goh Akia. Why
(02:52):
is it important not to break spaghetti in half?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
To us, it's hard and it's a bottle of good
owing up. So his little kid, my mom will cook
the spaghetti, never break him in half, and then she
will cut him with a little knife so I could
eat him. I was two years old. So when when
did they tell you he's a big boy, he's all
(03:16):
grown up now? When you were able to eat the
spaghetti without cotton? That was part of us growing up, wow,
and the other thing gave My grandfather used to sit
next to me so I would eat like him. So
if he tow old those spaghettis in his spoon, I
had to get the spoon and twirl them. If I
(03:36):
haven't told my mom to cut the spaghetti in half,
my grandfather will give me the back of his hand,
I will I would make a flip and land back
on my feet. Oh wow, did it? It's it's out tradition.
You don't if you can't afford a big pot, then
(03:57):
don't eat the spaghetti. Eat these things in a can
they call spaghettios.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Oh Jesus. And you have patience.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I feel like if you let it go enough time,
that spaghetti is eventually going to wind up in the pot.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
You have to have patience for it.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You know, spaghetti. The spaghetti is me so that you
able to twirl it once or twice and erupts around
your ford. I feel I can half noodle spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
So Gandhi says she can twirl a half noodle. But
it but it doesn't make it. It won't. It won't
make a big enough blob.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Okay, I just I how does the spaghetti cook all
the way when it doesn't go into the pot at
the same diact it does?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It does? It does go to the poto? I believe you.
I just need to know how I imagine gets there.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And you get a boat that's at least YETI is
anywhere from ten to twelve inches long. Yeah, to get
a pot, fill it with water and you turn them
on the side. You put them in sideways. But if
your pot is not big enough to do that. Just
put the spaghetti's sway up. They start to cook. The
(05:19):
steam itself softens them so within the within less than
a minute, the spaghetti goes right in the water. It
can't do anything else. I'm gonna have to try this.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It will.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's made to be cooked that way.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I'm a spaghetti breaker. I'm not gonna lie, but half
cooked faster because because that one is exposed to the
water longer.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It's so magic. Spaghetti is a magical thing all the same.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
It does, it does.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It is why you don't break up that monagon. You
gotta keep it the same.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Okay, there you go, and you know, you put your spaghetti,
and you gotta have a big pot.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Is gotta be full of water. You gotta water. Let
that water.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, and you put the spaghetti in and it all
splays out right.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And then.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And when it when it when it cooks enough on
the bottom, you stir it and it will fall down
into the water and it will cook beautifully, and then
you can twirl on your fork beautiful.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I eat that for the spaghetti while they cooked, because
I don't believe in the time, So I constantly have
to pick one, put it about twelve inches up and
then a little bit little eat it. Yeah, the best
powder cooked spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Eat it, eat it all right?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Now, well coming over, I'm gonna make spaghetti in a little.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Bit East Coast time. It's a little after seven o'clock.
How much how much espresso have you already had?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I'm already on my sports cup. I leave the house
and me and my son might go make bread and
we'll have about three more before my son Agio shows up.
We'll have one or two more. And then if all
(07:15):
this shows off, then we'll start with the spicy margaritas
and the paper playing down.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yes we do.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And you know so people are texting in by the way,
they're also saying, is this Almah in Hillsborough in a Jersey. Yes,
they're all talking about visiting you, Aguina. They all love.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I mean, And I make sure I open up a
nice bottle of procco.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Okay, all right, we'll have a nice brass to all right.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So look, if you're afraid to not cook spaghetti cut
in half, just try it. To make sure you get
a big enough pot, do it, do it the right way.
It will change your life.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, I won't dare spaghetti. If somebody gives me spaghetti,
I give you one better. When we open up the
package of spaghetti and they broke, we put them on
the side and we use them for soups. So if
I'm made and I cut the spaghetti's real smaller, he goes,
that's the only time you've got spaghetti's.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Wait, wait, what about do you cut it for that
or not?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
We cut him.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
These are things you're from here, from Erie, Pennsylvania. You
got to get out to Alma. Come on, come out
to Alma. Way we did growing up in a Polish household.
I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
We broke right in there and we put butter butter
in the pasta. We put but.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Oh my blogging up already, all right?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
You know we love you.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I can't wait to get back into town and come
see you and give you a big hug because you
are the best, and we love you, love your entire family.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, they want to know the aqua,
by the way, makes you got Alma. Go to Alma
in Hillsborough, New Jersey, where they never cut their spaghetti
in half.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Okay, hold on what.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Second, and there you go I'm glad we had this
conversation and we got through it without fighting, no insulting
each other else there.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Was a guess I felt attacked. Attacked My favorite thing.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
You know you've done something wrong when you hear a
Kida go, oh my god, all right, all right, let
a Keyna go Nate because he needs to go have
another espresso
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know, we interview the biggest stars and music and
TV and film, but sometimes we have a guest on
our show that is just a step above all of them.
This next guy you're about to meet is a good
friend of our show, and we don't remember his family
as he is now a member of ours. We always
talk about his restaurant, his family's restaurant AMA in New Jersey.
(00:26):
It's one of our favorite places of all time. And
he's just the most delightful human being on the planet Earth.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
And he's my brother.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Please welcome to the show that one and only come
forth the good morning. By the way, Hi, not to
be confused with Chef Lettie.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
They do sound a.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Little sound like him.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Aki. It's so great to hear your voice.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And thank you, by the way, for an incredible Christmas
Eve with your family.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
How much fun was that?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Oh? Oh my god, I told me three days they
were Cooper eight and Tombla I was just great. I
would do it on the show one day.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah, Tombla is It's like the Italian version of bingo, right, yes, and.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Half the table there were like fifteen people twenty people
at half the table could not speak English. They got
in the fight they were about to. If there was
a gun, there would have there would been gunshots. Right,
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yes, the show, I'm heale.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
It's not Polkino, right, no, no, no, it's tombola. It's
an Aldose tradition. So at the end of the night,
when everybody's pretty much had a lot to eat and drunk,
you play tombola and like here, we have to say
it in Italian and English because you know, some people
(01:50):
understand the numbers, but every number is a meeting, and
in Naples we call out the meaning and everybody already
know the number. But it's a lot of fun, is that.
Oh he cheated the number came out, it didn't come out.
And it's the one big argument across the table.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
It's the best, the best fight you'll ever have. All right, Okay,
so let's get to work over the holidays. Akide I
heard a debate online about spaghetti. People who break spaghetti
in half so it will in their mind fit into
the pot of water.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Mm hmm, I got this bums already.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, okay, Oh there's the music now, we don't we
don't want to insult anyone, but at the same time
we do want to. We do want to say, hey,
Akill is from the old country. He's from not bully.
He's here to tell us why it's important to get
a big enough pot to fit your spaghetti full of
water and not break it in half goh Akia. Why
(02:52):
is it important not to break spaghetti in half?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
To us, it's hard and it's a bottle of good
owing up. So his little kid, my mom will cook
the spaghetti, never break him in half, and then she
will cut him with a little knife so I could
eat him. I was two years old. So when when
did they tell you he's a big boy, he's all
(03:16):
grown up now? When you were able to eat the
spaghetti without cotton? That was part of us growing up, wow,
and the other thing gave My grandfather used to sit
next to me so I would eat like him. So
if he tow old those spaghettis in his spoon, I
had to get the spoon and twirl them. If I
(03:36):
haven't told my mom to cut the spaghetti in half,
my grandfather will give me the back of his hand,
I will I would make a flip and land back
on my feet. Oh wow, did it? It's it's out tradition.
You don't if you can't afford a big pot, then
(03:57):
don't eat the spaghetti. Eat these things in a can
they call spaghettios.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Oh Jesus. And you have patience.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I feel like if you let it go enough time,
that spaghetti is eventually going to wind up in the pot.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
You have to have patience for it.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You know, spaghetti. The spaghetti is me so that you
able to twirl it once or twice and erupts around
your ford. I feel I can half noodle spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
So Gandhi says she can twirl a half noodle. But
it but it doesn't make it. It won't. It won't
make a big enough blob.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Okay, I just I how does the spaghetti cook all
the way when it doesn't go into the pot at
the same diact it does?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It does? It does go to the poto? I believe you.
I just need to know how I imagine gets there.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
And you get a boat that's at least YETI is
anywhere from ten to twelve inches long. Yeah, to get
a pot, fill it with water and you turn them
on the side. You put them in sideways. But if
your pot is not big enough to do that. Just
put the spaghetti's sway up. They start to cook. The
(05:19):
steam itself softens them so within the within less than
a minute, the spaghetti goes right in the water. It
can't do anything else. I'm gonna have to try this.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
It will.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's made to be cooked that way.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I'm a spaghetti breaker. I'm not gonna lie, but half
cooked faster because because that one is exposed to the
water longer.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It's so magic. Spaghetti is a magical thing all the same.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
It does, it does.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
It is why you don't break up that monagon. You
gotta keep it the same.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Okay, there you go, and you know, you put your spaghetti,
and you gotta have a big pot.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Is gotta be full of water. You gotta water. Let
that water.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, and you put the spaghetti in and it all
splays out right.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
And then.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And when it when it when it cooks enough on
the bottom, you stir it and it will fall down
into the water and it will cook beautifully, and then
you can twirl on your fork beautiful.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I eat that for the spaghetti while they cooked, because
I don't believe in the time, So I constantly have
to pick one, put it about twelve inches up and
then a little bit little eat it. Yeah, the best
powder cooked spaghetti.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Eat it, eat it all right?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Now, well coming over, I'm gonna make spaghetti in a little.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Bit East Coast time. It's a little after seven o'clock.
How much how much espresso have you already had?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I'm already on my sports cup. I leave the house
and me and my son might go make bread and
we'll have about three more before my son Agio shows up.
We'll have one or two more. And then if all
(07:15):
this shows off, then we'll start with the spicy margaritas
and the paper playing down.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Yes we do.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And you know so people are texting in by the way,
they're also saying, is this Almah in Hillsborough in a Jersey. Yes,
they're all talking about visiting you, Aguina. They all love.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I mean, And I make sure I open up a
nice bottle of procco.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Okay, all right, we'll have a nice brass to all right.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So look, if you're afraid to not cook spaghetti cut
in half, just try it. To make sure you get
a big enough pot, do it, do it the right way.
It will change your life.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, I won't dare spaghetti. If somebody gives me spaghetti,
I give you one better. When we open up the
package of spaghetti and they broke, we put them on
the side and we use them for soups. So if
I'm made and I cut the spaghetti's real smaller, he goes,
that's the only time you've got spaghetti's.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Wait, wait, what about do you cut it for that
or not?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
We cut him.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
These are things you're from here, from Erie, Pennsylvania. You
got to get out to Alma. Come on, come out
to Alma. Way we did growing up in a Polish household.
I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
We broke right in there and we put butter butter
in the pasta. We put but.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Oh my blogging up already, all right?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
You know we love you.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I can't wait to get back into town and come
see you and give you a big hug because you
are the best, and we love you, love your entire family.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, they want to know the aqua,
by the way, makes you got Alma. Go to Alma
in Hillsborough, New Jersey, where they never cut their spaghetti
in half.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Okay, hold on what.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Second, and there you go I'm glad we had this
conversation and we got through it without fighting, no insulting
each other else there.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Was a guess I felt attacked. Attacked My favorite thing.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
You know you've done something wrong when you hear a
Kida go, oh my god, all right, all right, let
a Keyna go Nate because he needs to go have
another espresso
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