The blog of San Lorenzo

Lesson 1: love, desire and know your pasta

Basic facts:
- Pasta is the basic element of our diet: we eat it almost everyday and/or every other day, that’s for sure (unless you married a foreign, in which case he/she cannot understand all this and he/she is doomed to constant grumpiness from his/her Italian pasta’s junky chubby! ;D).

- We like our pasta al dente, a concept often misunderstood outside our borders: al dente basically means that when you bite your pasta it resists, it’s not soggy, it’s still hard in the middle (probably very hard for a foreign palate!). The only way to ruin a dish of pasta it’s to overcook it, so stick to directions! And the directions on our packages are the most detailed you can find! The only way to have pasta al dente is that it HAS to be made with durum wheat, and our pasta it is, of course, 100% Italian organic durum wheat. And I assure it makes all the difference.

- We like pasta dressed, but not over dressed with too much sauce: you have to taste the pasta AND the sauce, not just the sauce. Sometimes we like to go back to our childhood and enjoy a dish of pasta with only a spoon of extra virgin olive oil and some grated Parmesan, and we feel again in our mother’s kitchen…

Few secrets to keep peace with Italians:

- Never mock our love for pasta, never!

- We can make the difference in taste between each shape of pasta: for us penne and spaghetti taste completely different and we dress them differently! That’s why you can find infinite pasta shapes all around Italy! And remember, do not mock us for this!

- DO NOT CUT your spaghetti or ANY PASTA in front of an Italian EVER, unless you are ready to accept a disbelieved, then ashamed, look… And to loose a friend…

- Never mock our love for pasta, never! Really, never!

An advice
Unless you are super sure about what you are doing, do not cook pasta to an Italian, never! They’ll probably begin to question you with what seem strange questions: which trade mark is? Where have you bought it? How are you going to dress it? Well, all this unless you buy San Lorenzo pasta, then you are a bit more on the safe side, but not entirely safe anyway!

Scritto Mercoledì, 20 Febbraio, 2008 alle 11:46 in Curious facts, Products, In the spotlight. Puoi seguire questa conversazione con il feed RSS 2.0. Puoi scorrere questa pagina e lasciare un commento, o fare trackback.