I cried into dough, threw dough away because I couldn't face it, paid someone else to bake for me – just because the process was etched on me as a reminder of someone I'd lost.
The couple had met two years before the assault, when Mr. Pugach, then 30, was chasing ambulances, raking in the dough and throwing his money around.
The New York Clipper found the comedy to be a relief from the "pie-smashing, dough-throwing, acrobatic affairs that a long suffering public has come to regard at the only sort of film comedy to be seen".
"I will make 30 pizzas in one night if we have friends over," he said, stretching and throwing dough into a second pizza with green olives and three peppers — one Peppadew and two guindillas.
We usually ended up dusted in flour and throwing dough at each other while my grandmother filled the multi-tiered cabbage-lined aluminum steamer with beautiful momos, each crescent-shaped dumpling a work of art: edges evenly crimped, ends neatly joined like arms crossing over the plump (but not overly plump) belly of a well-fed householder.
Slowly and with effort, they push and squeeze the clay, kneading it as if it were bread dough, preparing it for throwing.
They know I'm a chef, so they invite my kids to try their hand at throwing the dough and adding their own toppings.
He rolled the dough, shaped it by throwing it into the air, then slapped it onto the side of the tandoor oven.
Ramazan Samarov, also 27, works in the back, throwing the dough on the tandor walls and checking with a light for the moment the bread is ready.
(I've noticed that some like to follow this up by just throwing the dough, with force and from about chest or shoulder height, down onto the work surface. Hey, whatever works for you).
So often the butt of sporting jokes, Great Britain threw dough at its sporting programs in the lead up to London 2012 and has reaped the rewards.
