Alphabet associations - I

[antongould]

types of pasta beginning with A
anelli, anellini, agnolotti
is Adina a Spanish Lady? (l'elisir d'amore)
is Angelica a fair maid? (poisoned kiss)
Angela in Patience
Anna Liszt was a chamber-maid !!
The Maid of Amsterdam was a fair maid
Alicia, Angeles,

Now that's what I call trying!

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Good try, mercia, but no correct answers so far. I'm off to work soon, so shan't look in until this evening, so do all move onto B if A causes too much confusion. A quick clue before I go. Look east for your fair maid...

[Anna]

Is the pasta a specific dish, such as pasta alfredo (for example)

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

Is the pasta a specific dish, such as pasta alfredo (for example)

The Pasta is most specific...

[amateur51]

A quick clue before I go. Look east for your fair maid...

Hackney?

Dalston?

Hornchurch?

EDIT: Snap, mercia - but you got in ahead of me

[amateur51]

Is the pasta a specific dish, such as pasta alfredo (for example)

Or perhaps the accompanying sauce? - arrabbiata?

Lordy it's only 10:00 and I'm getting a carb yearning

[Anna]

I've been going through specific pasta dishes with an A but not getting anywhere. There is a pasta aurora but drew a blank with that as well. So, I am stumped, it has to be a surname I think.

[vinteuil]

it has to be a surname I think.

... as in mercia's #6908.

Particularly as il Grande Inq: has taken care to give it a capital letter...

[Angle]

Ethiopia and Egypt are a bit further east than Southend
Ada Pullen is thought to have been the inspiration for Pygmalion which was the basis for My Fair Lady.
There is a cold pudding called Pasta Aida Mollenkamp at http://www.foodnetwork.co.uk/recipe/...kamp-chef.html
There's a Spanish sitcom called Aida but it's hardly about a Lady or a fair maid.
None of these are what you might call musical except by association



Any other Aida connections?

[Angle]

[Anna]

Just returning to this, still totally baffled. Aida seems a bit tenuous, if it's the soprano that mercia suggested is it the roles that she has sung?

[vinteuil]

if it's the soprano that mercia suggested is it the roles that she has sung?

well - wiki tells us she created Donizetti's Anna Bolena in Milan [Teatro Carcano] in 1830...

But p'raps it's simpler - mebbe he wants various Angiolinas - Angelas - Angeles ---- Gheorghiu? Victoria de los? - I dunno - I'm stumped too....

[Angle]

Hi Vinteuil and Anna, with Aida I am grasping at straws, truly up a gum tree.
However, I don't feel so bad knowing we all seem to be in the same boat. Now, what other metaphors could I use ?
Shall come back this evening when, with any luck, the solution to the puzzle will have been revealed.

[Anna]

Hi Vinteuil and Anna, with Aida I am grasping at straws, truly up a gum tree. Now, what other metaphors could I use ?

Hello Angle. Up the creek without a paddle?

Horrible day here, it's been chucking it down, and quite chilly, so I'm not going out and will continue to pop in the see if anyone has a clue.

Edit: There is a very thin pasta called Cappellini d'Angelo (angel hair pasta) it seems.

[Angle]

If it is Anna, I am still looking for a fair maid.