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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I will normally share recipes, but not this one. It truly is a family recipe, and I intend to keep it that way. Sorry. I will tell you I use ground round, not ground sirloin, and not ground chuck.
I sing my ancestral history loudly and proudly from the highest mountain!!!!
Already weeded my church’s front garden today for Palm Sunday, to welcome the King. My own front gardens need it, too, but I’d rather spend hours looking at the videos in this article and at Oshkalaboomboom’s link in post 9. Hope you are having a blessed day!
PING and another BUMP for later!
No hard feelings. I do not take offense at all. Our family takes a different tack but each family is unique.
I’m pleased you were able to perfect the recipe for you & your family’s satisfaction.
It is so entrancing to watch these women take piles of flour and turn them into delicious meals using only their hands and a wooden stick.
They are called “spaghetti benders”
The name of a forer restaurant in Ypsilanti, MI.
Former
Thanks for the PING!
Fantastico!
Of all the food my grandmother made (and it was alot of food!), she never did home-made pasta...
Milan may not be a charming place but the food is outstanding.
Now the Amalfi Coast was amazing.
Southern Spain and Italy have the most beautiful women I’ve seen in my European travels. Women in Madrid were surprisingly plain. England/Ireland/Netherlands? Meh.
Here’s a little secret: Italian MEN are amazing cooks, particularly if they paid attention to their female relatives.
Fascinating! I'd like to read more of battlefield cookery. :)
read an article the other day about some Italian provinces begging people to move there. 400sqft houses average, free, if you do about $20K in rennovations. Great opportunity for budding chefs to live cheaply in total immersion while they learn some the culinary secrets of the locals. I’d be tempted if I was 30 years younger.
Where she lived, she didn’t have to. I remember one of the main pasta-making stores on 9th St, D’Orazio’s, distributed to grocery chains all over the place, even down in Maryland. Two nice little nonnas ran the counter in the store, and probably started the store, but their sons created the distribution network.
That brings the memory of Grandpop’s weekly trip to 9th Street to buy cheese!
That was the first thing I thought about at the store the other day when I saw a bag of Fusilli on sale.
I’ve been re-reading the Foxfire books. I think I have five out of seven that were written.
One common theme in all the interviews with the old timers back in the early 70s is how disgusted they are with the way young people were at that time and how much the world had changed from their youth.
Which is the way I feel today.
Pasta flour, a rolling pin and a coffee cup to cut out the pieces are all I need to make Ravioli stuffed with whatever.
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