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PASTA & PASTA - Pasta at
360 Degrees
Pasta is the daughter of the sun, water, and the workmanship of the
Mediterranean men who learned how to transform a simple grain into a product
that is made into formidable, tasty, and healthy dishes all over the world.
Pasta is the monument of Italian cuisine, made of water and flour, simple
and excellent like all the cuisine of Italy.
We know that the Etruscans, the people of Tuscany and northern Lazio
prepared pasta already four centuries before Christ. The pastry board,
rolling pin, bag of flour, ladle to measure water, and the pasta cutter were
very similar to those we use today.
The Arabs deserve the credit for having thought of drying pasta around the
12th century.
Why pasta is made in to so many shapes? For the eyes? for the sauces or for
the mouth?
“I considered it my duty toward my readers to eat pasta with 3 fingers
of my right hand and I must report that while it is not the most practical
of things, the flavor is different and better.”
“The art of cooking can be explained in terms of magic; I would
consider it a rite of transformation made possible by divine fire and the
fantasy of the stove magician called “chef.” Pasta is a beautiful example of
magic for the palate and health. There are all sorts of pasta for all sorts
of diets and tastes.”
“And don’t forget, pasta is the lady of the table: you should never make her
wait.”
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| In a street of Naples: pasta
monument to pasta |
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