Monday, November 12, 2012

Cipriani - Delicious Papparedelle & Tagliolini Pasta

During the past month, I set out to find pappardelle pasta for one dish and tagliolini pasta for another.

Pappardelle are are broad thin noodles. I wanted to use this pasta with an Umbrian pork ragù. Pappardelle originated in Tuscany and are used in some very popular dishes such as pappardelle alla lepre (papardelle with hare sauce) and pappardelle al ragù di cinghiale (pappardelle with wild boar ragù).

Tagliolini, also known as tagliarini, are long, very thin, cylindrical noodles which originated in the Emilia-Romagna Region of Italy. I wanted to use them for Tagliolini alla Scivolosa from the famous Roman restaurant Sora Lella.

I could not find either pasta at Publix, but did find Cipriani pappardelle and Cipriani tagliolini at Fresh Market. Both pastas were fantastic, and worked very well with the the dishes I prepared.

Cipriani was founded in Venice, Italy in 1931 by Giuseppe Cipriani, founder of the famous Harry's Bar in Venice. The Cipriani family still owns Harry's Bar, as well as Cipriani restaurants in New York, London, and Hong Kong.

An 8.82 ounce (250 gram) box of either pasta sells at Fresh Market for $7.99. Both boxes contain 5 servings, and both are certified Kosher.

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