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Meet the Italian Grandmothers Making the World’s Rarest Pasta
messynessychic ^

Posted on 03/28/2021 5:59:15 AM PDT by mylife

Pasta makes everything better. This we know. But in the ancient villages of Sardinia, where the art of handmade pasta is practically a sacred ritual, there are ancestral, mouth-watering secrets that even the finest fettuccine can’t hold a candle to. We’re talking about the most beautiful and intricate shapes you’ve never seen; braided, stretched, twisted and crocheted using mesmerising bygone techniques. Did you know there’s only three women who still make one of the rarest pasta on earth? These are the disappearing recipes of Italian elders, passed down for generations by Sardinian and Italian women (and maybe a few men too!)

solated from the modern world, they rely on family to preserve and pass on the delicate and laborious techniques, but with a mass exodus of young people moving to cities and abroad for work, these recipes may very well disappear entirely. Enter Vicky Bennison, who for the last few years, has been inviting Youtube viewers into the lost world of Pasta Grannies. Aside from salivating over images of the most gorgeous pasta, meeting these loveable and legendary ‘nonne’ might just be the cure to all your woes. We hope you’re hungry…

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cookery; dietandcuisine; noodles; pasta; sardinia
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To: mylife

“Yes I would fill them, not just dump cannellini beans on them.”

Pictured are pine nuts. Creamy and scrumptious.


41 posted on 03/28/2021 7:30:39 AM PDT by Cleebie Grums (Bang the drum. . .)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

PFL


42 posted on 03/28/2021 7:31:52 AM PDT by Batman11 ( The USA is not an ATM!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

” In Italy it is still being passed down from mother to daughter.”

Have talked to US soldiers who were part of the NATO Kosovo occupation. US and French troops had good supplies of food but everybody tried to get someone from an Italian unit to cook it. They had learned from Mama’s or Grandma’s kitchen.


43 posted on 03/28/2021 7:37:33 AM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: mylife
I remember when we went to my Italian grandmother for Easter. Homemade pasta, tomato sauce... I loved the smell and listening to family history of Italy. Granddad had to leave Italy since he had a few people looking for his head, Mussolini for one...

Got to look at those on YouTube... The DeplorableAmerican Pasta Company... Momma Mia...

44 posted on 03/28/2021 7:38:45 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Rest In PEACE, Rush H. Limbaugh III. You are missed already...)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Hey thanks for the link.

Grandma Rose used to make home made pasta every weekend in Brooklyn in Bay Ridge.

She was in her 80s in the ‘70s :)

Man could she cook.

I remember being over there one day and her sister, my Aunt Mary, got busted by cops for bookmaking along with her 2 sons and boy was she mad.

She kept saying “they won’t let you make a living in this country!” :)


45 posted on 03/28/2021 7:39:01 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: mylife

Gorgeous! Hoo-boy a new site to eat up my time. hahahaha

I’ve been into this one lately, this woman is good.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIix6MklfJFywa_36iDj8Sw


46 posted on 03/28/2021 7:41:05 AM PDT by Irenic
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To: mylife

Looks yummy!


47 posted on 03/28/2021 7:41:34 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: mylife

You kidding? Chef Boyardee could stamp these out by the thousands.


48 posted on 03/28/2021 7:50:32 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: mylife

“Because it reminds you of Grammer?”

Not really. I never knew either of my Grandmas. It’s just a homey, comfortable pic. Kind of an earlier version of June Cleaver. Doing the housework. Wearing the jewelry. Love in her eyes.


49 posted on 03/28/2021 7:54:27 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right.)
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To: Cleebie Grums

Yer right dems pine nuts.
I feel like a fazol...


50 posted on 03/28/2021 8:25:04 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Sicilian with a fully automatic pasta knife!

COWER IN PLACE!!!


51 posted on 03/28/2021 8:26:47 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trans Undocumented. Anti Woke Supremacist. Covid Abortionist.)
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To: mylife

Bookmark


52 posted on 03/28/2021 8:31:07 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: lee martell; mylife

“That scene would make a nice oil painting for a talented artist.
Her pose has a regal look to it.
Grandma is Queen of the Kitchen, and she wears a crown of snow white hair.”

And today’s feminists would absolutely hate that and couldn’t wait to “cancel” her. How dare do they show a woman enjoying herself in the kitchen?


53 posted on 03/28/2021 8:37:50 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: mylife; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
But does anybody still make fusilli Jerry?


54 posted on 03/28/2021 8:39:51 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Si, fusilato!!


55 posted on 03/28/2021 8:47:48 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: aquila48

Wait till they notice the Rosary around her neck with a Gold Crucifix!


56 posted on 03/28/2021 8:51:37 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: mylife

Happy that the Keto queens can’t enjoy this.


57 posted on 03/28/2021 8:53:10 AM PDT by Clemenza
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To: lee martell

Not a rosary around her neck — thank heavens; it’s a heavy gold chain.


58 posted on 03/28/2021 8:56:34 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Cleebie Grums

Make sure you buy the tiny white Italian ones, more expensive than the Chinese ones, which are from a different tree and kill your sense of taste.


59 posted on 03/28/2021 9:02:35 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: dp0622
Hey thanks for the link.

Enjoy. I'm about to go downstairs and make some rustic pasta now, a mix of all-purpose flour and semolina, rolled out flat to thin it then rolled up into a tube and cut with a knife so it ends up in strands like long noodles. No pasta roller necessary and it tastes wonderful.

60 posted on 03/28/2021 9:22:08 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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