Spaghetti the most famous format born in the South of Italy and in the cities with the greatest concentration of pasta factories: Naples, Genoa and Liguria in general. The Spaghetto is a long rod pasta format with a round section with a diameter ranging between 1,92 and 2,00 mm.
Historically the first ufficial evidence of the name "spaghetto" goes back to 1819 on the pages of the first Italian dictionary by Nicolò Tommaseo and Bernardo Bellini. This is how the definition starts off "singular masculin, diminutive of spago (thread)" and with a mention to the "Spaghetti soup": as thick as a thread of spago and as long as sopracapellini". In 1957 BBC broadcasts the first scientific documentary on their production. The following day BBC phone lines were chcked up with phone calls of people asking for more information on spaghetti producers and distributer in order to buy them.
Spaghetti can be served with fresh or canned tomato warm or cold sauces with vegetables and aromatic herbs. Also excellent with quick hot spicy sauces with garlic and Cayen pepper. Also perfect Fish sauces with shellfish and fruit de mer, "white" sauces made with milk cream, mascarpone, soft and melted cheeses, adding spices such as saffron, radish curry and ginger.
Olive Oil Extra Virgin BIO COSTA RIPARO 500 ml. - Azienda Agraria Viola
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You look around and you wonder if it is the earth or the stone that takes care of these age old olive trees. Plants that grow on stony calcareous soil with good drainage at a perfect cultivation altitude; small-sized and low yielding, they are cared for and touched only by human hands. It can be used in many recipes: for sauteed creamy pasta and rice dishes, tuna marinade, shellfish au gratin and vegetable soup. Ideal with grilled radicchio, pinzimonio, artichoke salad with parmesan slivers, meat sauce and fishfry.
Winemaking: Guyot system. Harvested by hand in mid-September, just when the ripe grapes are turning color. Soft pressed - Brought to cold temperature to allow a separation of the sediment. Fermented and matured on the yeasts for 6 months in cement vats with the exception of 20% of the Friulano which is kept in 10 year old tonneaux for 6 months.
Extra virgin olive oil produced in Brindisi. It has a golden yellow and slightly green colour. Slightly spicy taste. It goes well with vegetables, salads, red and white meat. Acidity 0,2 %.