On soaking up the sauce & week 23 of 52
the last and the best
The Italian expression Fare la Scarpetta (to “do the little shoe”) means sopping up the last bit of pasta sauce from a plate with a piece of bread. It’s a feeling akin to eating an ice cream cone and getting to that little pocket of chocolate in the last triangular bite.
Why is the last bite so good? Maybe the economic concept of scarcity value—which su…
