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READ IT AND EAT ™ BOX
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✓ Delicious food treats (from a small business, never Amazon)
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We Are Currently Accepting Orders for Our Pasta Box
This Box Ships in August 2024
What's Inside Our Pasta Box
Read [Food Writing Path]
The Discovery of Pasta: A History in Ten Dishes
What is Italy without pasta? Come to think of it, where would the rest of us be without this staple of global cuisine? An acclaimed Italian food writer tells the colorful and often-surprising history of everyone's favorite dish.
In this hugely charming and entertaining chronicle of everyone's favorite dish, acclaimed Italian food writer and historian Luca Cesari draws on literature, history, and many classic recipes in order to enlighten pasta lovers everywhere, both the gourmet and the gluten free.
What is Italy without pasta? Come to think of it, where would the rest of us be without this staple of global cuisine? The wheat-based dough first appeared in the Mediterranean in ancient times. Yet despite these remote beginnings, pasta wasn't wedded to sauce until the nineteenth century. Once a special treat, it has been served everywhere from peasant homes to rustic taverns to royal tables, and its surprising past holds a mirror up to the changing fortunes of its makers. Full of mouthwatering recipes and outlandish anecdotes--from (literal) off-the-wall 1880s cooking techniques to spaghetti conveyer belts in 1940 and the international amatriciana scandal in 2021--Luca Cesari embarks on a tantalizing and edifying journey through time to detangle the heritage of this culinary classic.
Read [Fiction Path]
Varina Palladino’s Jersey Italian Love Story: A Novel
"Varina Palladino's Jersey Italian Love Story is fun and funny, wonderfully exuberant, and incredibly wise. These endearing characters--their voices and stories-- will be with me for a long time to come. I didn't want to say good-bye." -Jill McCorkle, New York Times bestselling author of Hieroglyphics
An utterly delightful and surprising family drama--think Moonstruck and My Big Fat Greek Wedding set in New Jersey--about a boisterous, complicated Italian family determined to help their widowed mother find a new boyfriend.
Lively widow Varina Palladino has lived in the same house in Wyldale, New Jersey, her entire life. The town might be slightly stuck in the 1960s, when small businesses thrived and most residents were Italian, but its population is getting younger and the Palladinos are embracing the change. What Varina's not embracing, much to her ninety-two-year-old mother's dismay, is dating. Running Palladino's Italian Specialties grocery, caring for her mother, and keeping her large, loud Jersey Italian family from killing one another takes up all of Varina's energy anyway.
Sylvia Spini worries about her daughter Varina being left all alone when she dies. Sylvia knows what it is to be old and alone, so when her granddaughter, Donatella, comes to her with an ill-conceived plan to find Varina a man, Sylvia dives in. The three men of the family--Dante, Tommy, and Paulie--are each secretly plotting their own big life changes, which will throw everyone for a loop.
Three generations of Palladinos butt heads and break one another's hearts as they wrestle with their own Jersey Italian love stories in this hilarious and life-affirming ode to love and family.
Read [Cookbook Path +$15]
Anything’s Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes for Saucy People
The innovative James Beard Award-winning podcaster who changed the way you think about pasta shapes with his invention of the viral sensation cascatelli now does the same for pasta sauces in this fun and charmingly obsessive cookbook, which includes a foreword from bestselling author J. Kenji López-Alt.
When Sporkful podcast host Dan Pashman launched cascatelli, a new pasta shape he invented that he designed to hold tons of sauce, stay on the fork, and be incredibly satisfying to bite into, it went viral and was named one of TIME Magazine's Best Inventions of the Year. VICE called him "a modern pasta legend."
But as Dan was flooded with pictures of what people were making with his pasta, he was disappointed to see how limited the dishes were: tomato sauce, meat sauce, mac and cheese, over and over. A few party animals made pesto.
So Dan set out to revolutionize people's conceptions of pasta sauces, just as he did with pasta shapes. He traveled across Italy and worked with an all-star team of recipe developers in the US to create a new kind of pasta sauce cookbook for people bored with the old standbys. That's why there's no 3-hour marinara recipe or fresh pasta made from scratch in this book. No photos of nonnas caked in flour or the hills of Tuscany. Instead it's time to show the world--Anything's Pastable.
Eat
For the “eat” part of your Pasta Box, get ready for fun, hands-on culinary experience! You’ll find a Gnocchi Board from Fox Run Brands, perfect for making authentic homemade gnocchi. The natural beechwood paddle has ridges that create those traditional indentions, helping the sauce cling to the pasta just right. Plus, you’ll get Pasta Flour from Hayden Flour Mills, thanks to the father-daughter duo, Jeff and Emma Zimmerman. They’ve reintroduced ancient grains to bring your flavorful, unmodified flour for the best pasta-making experience. Enjoy crafting your delicious gnocchi at home!
Fight Hunger
$5 from every box sold is being donated to Buffalo Go Green (BGG). Buffalo’s East Side faces significant food deserts, lacking grocery stores and fresh food providers, leading to health issues like diabetes and obesity. Buffalo Go Green (BGG) combars this by selling fresh product at farmers markets from June to October, offering corporate wellness programs, and providing nutrition education for students. Their new Zenner street site will feature five greenhouses and a hydroponic vertical growing container for year-round harvests, helping underserved communities in Western New York live healthier, sustainable lives.
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