The Italian Club Blog — Pasta

From North to South Italy everyone has eaten and prepared, at least once in their life, lasagne on Sunday for lunch with the whole family.

But, as with many other dishes of the Italian culinary tradition, lasagna also has an origin with many question marks that have contributed to improving this Italian excellence.

Like any dish and recipe, it is right to start from the origins of the latter and therefore the question is:

Where are lasagne born?

April 6 is the day when the whole world celebrates the Italian carbonara, or more commonly known as Carbonara day.

Everything has been said and done about carbonara, so why not go looking for the origin of the dish? We now take for granted that the carbonara belongs to a certain area, requires the ingredients mentioned above but what if the story that we know is not true? What if the original recipe included some other ingredient? And above all, who called this dish "carbonara"? Why did he/she do it? and especially where and when did he/she do it?

It's easy to say tonight we are eating pasta? But in Italy we know that this question leads to a series of doubts, and above all it leads us to a new question:

What kind of pasta, which shape?

Yes, the main Italian problem is that each pasta dish has a shape of pasta to match with it. We know that there are many pasta shapes and that each one of them should and must be used for a specific sauce.

But which are the current shapes available? Let's discover together all shapes available.

Italy is worldwide famous for many things, on top of it we have food, but among all types of food that you can eat in Italy Pasta is for sure the most famous one - with Pizza.

Today we will go through the most famous Italian pasta and where you should try it.

Pasta is probably one of the most consumed and exported Italian products in the world.

Today, we can find thousands of different types of pasta on the market, which differ, in addition to the format, by the manufacturer and by price.

Picking the right pasta is not always an easy choice, so how do we choose a good quality pasta? Which are the most important elements to consider? Let's find out together.