Molto al dente is the culinary term for slightly undercooked pasta. Undercooking pasta is used in the first round of cooking when a pasta dish is going to be cooked twice. The culinary term  al forno  is used for pasta dishes that are cooked twice. Pasta that is cooked al dente has a lower glycemic index than pasta that is cooked soft. When cooking commercial pasta, the al dente phase occurs right after the white of the pasta center disappears.
Although Danny Devito likes to claim he is 5 foot tall, when measured on Always sunny in philadelpha for a skit, turns out he was 4' 10'', or more exactly 147 cm. I have never been satisfied on whether he is a 'dwarf' or not, not that it really matters, but it does make my brain race in thought...
American comedian, actor and TV personality. He described himself in his biography as six-foot-four, 220-pound and has stated that height consistently through his career. [Johnny Carson is] so slim he makes me look fat every time I stand next to him before a camera...I'm six feet, four inches tall. I weigh (on my skinny days) 198 pounds, and days when my wife's cooking has crept up on me, 208 pounds. -- Ed in 1964