
Pizzoccheri: Italy's debated buckwheat pasta recipe

the Italian pasta lexicon includes shapes made from chestnut flour, acorn flour, rice flour, corn flour, broad bean flour and buckwheat. The hard king and tender queen, though, are hard or durum wheat semolina flour and soft wheat 00 flour
Rachel Roddy • An a-Z of Pasta

Pasta, from the word impasto – a magma of flour and liquid – can be made from any flour; the Italian pasta lexicon includes shapes made from chestnut flour, acorn flour, rice flour, corn flour, broad bean flour and buckwheat. The hard king and tender queen, though, are hard or durum wheat semolina flour and soft wheat 00 flour.
Rachel Roddy • An a-Z of Pasta
It is the way they pleat and fold that makes them so satisfying. First on the plate and then again in your mouth. Pappardelle are typical of all the central and central-northern Italian regions, each one boasting a slightly different width, anything from 2.5 to 6cm. The Tuscans gave it the name; it comes from pappare, the colloquial, to eat. Fresh
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