From my recent trip down south, I learned a few new recipes. The first one was outside Benevento where we went for a wine-tasting lunch at the La Guardiense Cooperative. I had been before and was so taken by one of the dishes the local women made for us. It is a handmade pasta, made but…
‘A Pasta- Gragnano Pasta Festival 2012
Sometimes I get so overloaded with information I need to let it sink in to think about it. The pasta festival in Gragnano was one of those events. Traditionally, the festival is held the first week in September it is three days packed with music and food. I attended a pre-festival in collaboration with the…
Gragnano Pasta- Stuffed Rigatoni
On our day trip to Gragnano, where one of the BEST pasta’s in Italy is made, our lunch was on a working farm. Driving past the village itself, I saw the factory for the Faella pasta company right in the main part of town. The pasta from Gragnano is famous not only because of the quality of the wheat…