The Leftovers with "The Pasta Queen" Nadia Caterina Munno
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from Nadia Caterina Munno, known to her 10 million social-media followers as The Pasta Queen, which also happens to be the name of her new Amazon Prime Italian cooking and travel show.
On this bite-sized episode, Nadia reveals her all-time favorite pasta shape, how many times she's been to The Olive Garden and the Roman dish she thinks all Americans should be eating.
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.8 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome to The Leftovers. I'm Rachel Bell. The Leftovers is audio left on the cutting room floor from last week's Your Last Meal interview. And today, you'll hear never before heard cuts from Nadia Katarina Muno, better known as The Pasta Queen. Nadia has a new show on Amazon Prime called The Pasta Queen. |
| 0:39.2 | She wrote two cookbooks and has more than 10 million followers on social media, |
| 0:43.4 | where she cooks pasta with dramatic Italian flair. |
| 0:47.5 | Arrabiata means angry. Why? Because it's spicy. Just like you. |
| 0:52.2 | On last week's episode of Your Less Meal, Nadia talks about one of the most satisfying |
| 0:57.4 | pastas of her life. |
| 0:59.5 | 25 minutes after I gave birth with my third daughter. |
| 1:03.5 | And I just was like, can you run down to the restaurant and get me rigadonia la madrigana? |
| 1:08.8 | My mom couldn't even believe that I was sitting up. |
| 1:11.6 | You know, I just gave birth and I'm like, give me the most earthy, Roman, iconic pasta. |
| 1:17.6 | No IVs, like the hospital, IV and fluid, nothing. |
| 1:22.6 | I went for an amatrizana. |
| 1:25.6 | The tomatoes give me life. |
| 1:29.1 | I really am obsessed with anything red. |
| 1:33.0 | So tomato-based sauces are my favorite. |
| 1:35.5 | I recommend you go back and listen to that episode before this one. |
| 1:39.1 | But if you're all caught up, let's get into the leftovers with Nadia Katarina Muno. |
| 1:51.0 | Music up let's get into the leftovers with Nadia Katarina Muno. Friends, today's episode is teeny tiny, just a little bite-sized morsel, a little pastina. |
| 1:58.4 | Here is a lightning round with the pasta queen. What is your perfect birthday cake or |
| 2:03.6 | birthday dessert? Tiramisu. And do you make it yourself? Who would you want to make your birthday? |
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