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This amazing woman, Fiorenza, created this sheet of pasta with a half kilo of flour, five eggs, a pine board surface, a cherry-wood pole/rolling pin that belonged to her husband's grandmother, and, most importantly, her hands. And when she was finished, she received a healthy round of applause from all of those in attendance at her cooking demonstration. She then humbly continued creating cappelli di zucca in the tradition of Montova in the region of Lombardia at a local pumpkin festival near my home this weekend.
Learning to make pasta or admiring someone who completes this task entirely by hand is certainly something to do in my country of Italy.
Another thing to do would be to pay Fiorenza a visit for a taste of her pasta or anything from her kitchen, for that matter: Agriturismo Loghino Sabbioni. I hope to do so soon.
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Yum, yum! This looks so good ... This is typically the kind of thing I'd like to see (and taste of course) going to Italy!
ReplyDeletewonderful! you must now demonstrate to all of us, and invite us for dinner! :)
ReplyDeleteMy husband was just musing yesterday about taking a cooking class in Italy (he found one online, week long, looked like such fun)
ReplyDeleteThose look amazing!!
My mouth is watering! I imagine that this is perfect pasta. Yum!
ReplyDeleteWow, awesome. Such a huge pasta. I could eat immediately. What does the lady in the middle?
ReplyDeleteyum, that looks good, I hope you could taste them. That lady is a real genius (and tortelli di zucca are super)
ReplyDeleteI want to come to her kitchen with you! Yum! Pumpkin Ravioli -to die for! Did she serve them in any kid of butter or sauce. I like them with sage butter!
ReplyDeletemy mother made pasta, but she made very small sheets of dough, and used it only for the soup on sundays. it was the best, though. and she told us stories about her - i have forgotten who it was - who did it just like mrs Fiorenza in your post. it seemed like magic!
ReplyDeletewow, incredible how she made the pasta!!
ReplyDeletethat must be a nice thing to do in Italia, to see how it has been made and of course to eat it afterwards!!
Lovely and delicious little photo essay...that makes me yearn for real pasta!
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