UNFORGETTABLE ITALIAN PASTA MADE FRESH

As children, what pasta represented was a dish you could play with: it was accepted as one of the few excuses to slurp up your food at the dinner table. Our parents would buy it at the grocery store, rock hard in a package and it would take 15 to 20 minutes to boil before they served it on a plate. Pasta was plain and simple; there was no breaking down the complexity of a sauce or an invitation to discover tenderness and texture.