{"id":11910,"date":"2022-04-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.italianlanguagefoundation.org\/?p=11910"},"modified":"2024-02-19T19:51:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T00:51:47","slug":"pasta-how-it-was-and-should-always-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/pasta-how-it-was-and-should-always-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasta: How it Was and Should Always Be"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11910\" class=\"elementor elementor-11910\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-eb15272 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"eb15272\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2f9cfdd\" data-id=\"2f9cfdd\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64ab8a7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"64ab8a7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>By Gabriele Lombardo, a passionate wine expert from Sicily, Italy, studying at WSET 3 while working on many projects, all connected to international tourism. His love for story-telling brought him to the writing world which, together with his acting experience, helped him develop a charismatic style, both in person and on paper.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb8a43b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fb8a43b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>A few days ago, during one of my age-long discussions with my chef (and mother) about the pros and cons of pasta dishes, we both realized that I still had to write something about it and, being in Italy, that was not acceptable. Mother reminded me that there&#8217;s an amazing &#8216;Pastificio&#8217; with a Sicilian-only and hand-crafted pasta production literally fifteen minutes away from my place so we took the car and went straight for it, hoping that someone would bear my endless stream of questions.\u00a0<\/p><p>After a brief car drive, we found ourselves in front of this intriguing building, surely a little old but still lively,\u00a0\u00a0 only two stories tall but as long as a train. The welcoming looking alley showed us the way to the first available parking spot and, full of high expectations, we entered <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/barbagallo1911.it\/en\/\">&#8216;Pas<\/a><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/barbagallo1911.it\/en\/\">tificio Barbagallo<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><p>I was wandering around, reading about ancient varieties of wheat, nutritional values and pasta-making techniques that I knew very little of when I decided it was time for questions. And it was exactly when I was about to test my luck with the first person I could find that a young woman wearing lab-like clothing showed up, waving her hands towards me.<\/p><p>Agata Barbagallo, heir to the Barbagallo legacy and current leader of the company, greeted me with energy that no covid mask could have hide before pointing out two empty chairs and sitting on one of them. From then on, I let myself get carried away with the enthusiasm that followed each of my many questions, barely able to write down the river-like flow of information aimed at me.\u00a0<\/p><p>\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11910 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/pasta-how-it-was-and-should-always-be\/pasta-1\/'><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pasta-1-272x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-11912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pasta-1-272x300.png 272w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pasta-1-22x24.png 22w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pasta-1-33x36.png 33w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pasta-1-44x48.png 44w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pasta-1.png 445w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-11912'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Building Factory\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/picture2\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture2-226x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-11932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture2-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture2-18x24.jpg 18w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture2-27x36.jpg 27w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture2-36x48.jpg 36w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture2.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-11932'>\n\t\t\t\tFrom Wheat&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><p>The building is more than 100 years old, built back in 1911 thanks to Agata&#8217;s grandfather, who bravely decided to turn the old family vineyard into the place we can see today and started the pasta-making business, together with the grinding of wheat and the extraction of essences from many fruits and flowers, which they exported all the way around the EU.<\/p><p>Always putting a lot of effort on sharing all the knowledge they gathered during the decades of activity, they kept on working with local farmers even when the world was moving towards massive productions, being loyal to their intent and finding themselves in a much nicer position now that the awareness of customers has risen quite noticeably.<\/p><p>But we&#8217;re still missing something. As if everything I told you wasn&#8217;t enough, there&#8217;s one more process that makes the real difference when we are talking about flavors and texture: Drying.<\/p><p>\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-11910 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/pasta-how-it-was-and-should-always-be\/pasta-2\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pasta-2-221x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-11913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pasta-2-221x300.png 221w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pasta-2-18x24.png 18w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pasta-2-27x36.png 27w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pasta-2-35x48.png 35w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pasta-2.png 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-11913'>\n\t\t\t\tto pasta made &#038; drying&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/picture1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture1-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-11933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture1-24x18.jpg 24w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture1-36x27.jpg 36w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture1-48x36.jpg 48w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture1.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-11933'>\n\t\t\t\tto beautifully made pasta..\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><p>We all know patience makes the difference in the kitchen and this is yet another proof of it: time and low temperatures will make sure your pasta will end up being soft on the outside but harder on the inner part.<\/p><p>Techniques and traditions are of utmost importance, but Agata and her sisters decided to take the business to another level, focusing on their ecological impact and producing not only organic, high-level pasta, but also a completely recyclable packaging for most of their products.<\/p><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">So, from Ancient Sicilian wheat varieties to soft, rich flours, ready to be turned into some of the best pasta you could find, everything happening here, following traditions but led by innovative thinking.<\/span><\/p><p>\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-11910 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/pasta-how-it-was-and-should-always-be\/picture3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"264\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-11943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture3.jpg 264w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture3-22x24.jpg 22w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture3-33x36.jpg 33w, https:\/\/italianlanguagefoundation.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Picture3-44x48.jpg 44w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-11943'>\n\t\t\t\tAnd&#8230;the end result, buonissimo!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in; 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