Machine-Cooked Pasta at Irvine's Pastagina

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • March 10, 2008
A robot vacuums our carpet when we aren't home. With a button push, a metal box in our kitchen turns a frozen, inedible block into a hot meal. We don't go bowling anymore. Instead, we mimic the motion with a handheld remote that sends a virtual...
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