Making food from scratch typically requires advance preparation, adherence to a recipe, and your third and final genie wish. Save the third wish for more wishes with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of Italian cuisine at The Pasta Factory Company.
The Pasta Factory Company have tempted diners with a diverse menu of authentic Italian fare for more than a quarter-century. The appetizer meat pie's envelope of warm crust is stuffed with a succulent filling ready for devouring or airmailing to relatives in Boise ($2.20), and chefs proudly toss leafy greens to create their namesake chef salad ($6.94). Entrees include a chicken sandwich ($7.91), spinach linguine topped with a choice of tomato, meat, or garlic and oil sauces ($7.80), and a plate of lasagna ($9.90) served with bread and salad.
Origin Stories: Three Men and a Ziti
In 1978, Argentinian pasta craftsman Richard Sanders immigrated to Miami with his wife, Carmen, and opened The Pasta Factory Co. Thirty-three years later, Richard’s three sons—Rick, Fernando, and Leonard—have taken the rigatoni reins, with Fernando spinning homemade linguine, spaghetti, and fettuccini on his father’s original machine. Rick’s favorite part of the job has been watching 20 years of first dates, many of which transformed into years-long courtships and ended in down-on-one-knee marriage proposals—all within the confines of The Pasta Factory’s dining room.
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The Groupon Guide to: Temperature Scales
To determine whether a soft drink is cool enough to put out a small mouth fire or hot enough to melt restrictive pants into billowing shorts, scientists turn to one of their many temperature scales. Here's a look at the most popular hierarchies of heating:
Fahrenheit: The only temperature scale grand enough for the wide-open land of freedom we call the U.S. of A. Using this commonsense scale, water boils at 212 degrees—212 being the exact number of minutes you can stick your hand in boiling water for before it starts to hurt.
Celsius: Named after St. Celsion, patron saint of apocryphal headache remedies, this illogical scale has water freeze at 0 degrees and boil at 100 degrees, even though 100 has twice as many zeroes in it as the number 0 does, so if anything, 100 degrees should be twice as cold as 0 degrees.
Kelvin: In the Kelvin scale, absolute zero refers to the temperature at which all thermal motion ceases. The only thing that can withstand this extreme temperature is the cold heart of a man whose will to live has been extinguished by a lifetime of regret and sadness, a.k.a. all men.
McKinley: Named after President William McKinley, who routinely governed with such musings as "I'm too hot to president today," and "I'm cold. Let's invade my fireplace with an army of grahamed crackers and marshed mallows." On this scale, 100 degrees is the temperature at which the Spanish-American War breaks out.
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