You may be right Pongi. Here's a quote from Antonio Carluccio:
«Never rinse pasta in cold water -- if you want to cool it down and interrupt the cooking process, add a couple of glasses of cold water to the pot when you take it off...
There are three common reasons for gooey/sticky pasta: either there's not enough water, the water is not at a rolling boil or the pasta was not stirred initially. There's a fourth reason: crappy pasta to begin with.
:lol: Confusion allowed Alexia, it's been such a long time. The book has been reprinted and is available at amazon.com click
Here's a word from his nephew (scroll down to the second review)