I chatted with Mrs. Guo, the middle-aged dynamo from Henan province, who worked the counter, while her husband, a tall quiet sort, pounded dough behind her in a cloud of flour and steam.
Demonstrations, including how to pound rice dough with mallets, a contest to guess the names of Korean liquors, samplings.
How about the guy who was literally making your pizza behind the counter did you match up your rhythm with his as he pounded that dough.
Use a wooden rolling pin (a tapered wooden rolling pin is wonderful for this task); a wooden spoon or your hands to pound the dough for 1 minute.
A typical dish is based on cocoyams, maize, cassava (manioc), millet, plantains, potatoes, rice, or yams, often pounded into dough-like fufu (cous-cous).
At the campfire, Jafar made tagella, the traditional Tuareg bread, combining flour and water in a bowl and pounding the mixture into dough, which he buried in the sand and covered with smoking coals.
At ten o'clock on Monday morning, Julia stood at the counter of the onstage kitchen at the Kabuki Theatre, pounding out chilled pastry dough with giant blows of a rolling pin and occasionally popping a small piece of it into her mouth.
The traditional White House gingerbread house -- the ostensibly edible version -- is a hefty replica weighing in at 150 pounds of gingerbread, 100 pounds of bread dough, 20 pounds of gum paste, 20 pounds of icing and 20 pounds of sculpted sugar pieces.
Raffetto's, at (212 777-1261, will roll it to order for ravioli (2-pound minimum at $1.85 per pound; leftover dough can be frozen).
ON this Sunday afternoon, the nerve center of the Sikh house of worship in Richmond Hill, Queens, was its industrial-size kitchen, where men, women and children pounded mounds of dough to make roti.
"O.K., class, next we'll pound out the dough until that ungrateful, self-centered son of a bitch realizes he's not the center of the world, and maybe, just maybe, he doesn't deserve an attractive, well-educated woman with a wonderful sense of humor".
