The actor calls the dish ‘Piccolini Cuscino’, or ‘Little Pillow’ You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment.Want to discuss real-world problems, be involved in the most engaging discussions and hear from the journalists? Alternatively, although I am not implying that anything untoward was consumed during the cooking or conception of Pattinson’s pasta, it would not be a …

“I literally did this yesterday.

"I think parts of it are real and parts of it can’t be real."His demonstration ended with a lightning bolt erupting from his "oven/microwave" after he places the ball inside for "probably 10 minutes."Next, Baron said the actor began layering sugar and cheese on a bed of aluminum foil.The actor attempted to make his unique dish while speaking to Zach Baron for the June/July issue of GQOnce he fixed his mistake, Pattinson added a layer of "red sauce" right as the microwave finished the pasta. But when Robert Pattinson revealed in his GQ cover story this week that he’s invented a “fast food pasta recipe” he dubs Piccolini Cuscino, I knew I had no choice but to try it. He shares a tip: microwaving pasta that looks like the “hair bun on a girl” (tagliatelle?) After burning himself on the bowl, Pattinson began dumping the pasta onto the sugar, cheese and sauce mixture."No idea if it’s cooked or not," he tells Baron of the penne pasta, before adding, “I mean, there’s absolutely no chance this is gonna work.

Piccolini Cuscino means “little pillow” in Italian, and it’s Pattinson’s attempt to give pasta “the same kind of fast-food credentials as burgers and pizzas.”

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"I wish I could tell you whether what I’m about to describe here is a bit, or a piece of performance art, or is in fact sincere—even now, I don’t totally know," the journalist wrote. Well, in a recent profile for GQ, Robert Pattinson detailed his time in isolation, and let us all in on the key ingredients to his home cooking, so buckle up and get ready for his bizarre pasta dish.