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# 'Establish Rapport with the Dough.' Man Makes Handmade Pasta to Capture Woman’s Heart and That’s Amore

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by 

[Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/)


## Rachel E. Greenspan


Oct 31, 2019 2:49 PM UTC

by 

[Rachel E. Greenspan](https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/)


## Rachel E. Greenspan


Oct 31, 2019 2:49 PM UTC

People [will go to great lengths for love](https://time.com/5702055/chicken-nugget-bouquet-bride/), but making [tortellini](https://time.com/5624416/ravioli-starfish/) from scratch is almost enough to rival Shakespearean levels of affection.

One man used Twitter on Tuesday to capture the heart of a lady (and of thousands on the internet) with his step-by-step guide to making the [Italian](https://time.com/5713279/italy-migrant-rescue-boats/) pasta dish.

> [](https://twitter.com/tillytortellini/status/1189344264121135104)

The first step: acquire the dough. For the second, “establish rapport with the dough.” In the third step, he splits the dough in two – “betray the dough,” he says. In the fourth step, he makes an entire army of tortellinis, as the carb-heavy deliciousness is sent on as a dinnertime fleet.

> [](https://twitter.com/tillytortellini/status/1189345668546121728)

But our chef, whose Twitter name is “Tortellinis for Tilly,” doesn’t reveal what goes on between steps four and five — when the dish is complete — leaving much to be desired. But then he smiles for a blurry [selfie](https://time.com/5683099/elizabeth-warren-selfies/), showing that the sixth step is to “win her heart.”

> [](https://twitter.com/tillytortellini/status/1189345677010198529)


> [](https://twitter.com/tillytortellini/status/1189345683549147136)

His only tweets are the tortellini instructions, so it’s clear that he is truly dedicated to the [art](https://time.com/5714744/leonardo-da-vinci-louvre/).

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