--- description: People will go to great lengths for love, but this man who made tortellini from scratch has shown a Shakespearean display of affection. title: Man Makes His Own Handmade Pasta Army to Capture Woman’s Heart and That’s Amore image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # 'Establish Rapport with the Dough.' Man Makes Handmade Pasta to Capture Woman’s Heart and That’s Amore by [Rachel E. Greenspan](/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 31, 2019 2:49 PM CUT by [Rachel E. Greenspan](/author/rachel-e-greenspan/) ## Rachel E. Greenspan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 31, 2019 2:49 PM CUT People [will go to great lengths for love](https://time.com/5702055/chicken-nugget-bouquet-bride/ "undefined"), but making [tortellini](https://time.com/5624416/ravioli-starfish/ "undefined") 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/ "undefined") 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/ "undefined"), 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/ "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5715058/handmade-tortellini-tweets/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5715058/handmade-tortellini-tweets/"},"headline":"'Establish Rapport with the Dough.' Man Makes Handmade Pasta to Capture Woman’s Heart and That’s Amore","datePublished":"2019-10-31T14:49:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:00.718Z","description":"Romeo whom?","url":"https://time.com/5715058/handmade-tortellini-tweets/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rachel E. Greenspan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rachel-e-greenspan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5715058/handmade-tortellini-tweets/","name":"'Establish Rapport with the Dough.' Man Makes Handmade Pasta to Capture Woman’s Heart and That’s Amore"}}]}] ```