return of the pasta

Hiroko and I went to see the final installment of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Loved it. Long and grand and huge and epic and a decidedly non-Hollywood melancholy ending. Todd will hate it because it's exactly as he describes: it's like watching a Dungeons & Dragons adventure unfold. So if you like that kind of thing (or liked the first two) you'll love the third.
After the movie we met up at John's Best for dinner. Cheap, big Italian food with a menu chock full of English and Italian spelling mistakes. Yuko's lobster ravioli in pink sauce was the winner, but the pizza is good, too.
And once again Papa's Principles of Palate #2 was in full effect: he put salt on his pizza.
For those who are not familiar with all of Papa's Principles of Palate:

1. Never drink water.


2. Food tastes better with more salt.


3. All the carbs you ever need can be had from wine.


4. Salad goes in its own salad bowl.


5. Order what you want to eat and eat what you order: no sharing.


6. The quality of the food is inversely proportional to the number of spelling mistakes on the menu.


7. The quality of the food is inversely proportional to the ease with which the reservations were made.


8. The waiter is most likely an idiot.


9. The bill is probably wrong.