When this author consulted the ‘Italian whisper network’, she found 15 nonnas, delicious food and a whole lot of love. Watch them making pasta from scratch.
Flour and water and a little commitment – that’s all you need to make homemade pasta and arguably a happy life. Writer Jaclyn Crupi, second-generation Australian-Italian, knew who to turn to find the secrets to all of this, Australian nonnas.is aimed at demystifying the cooking process, but what she found along the way answered some greater questions too. It’s not difficult, Crupi says it just takes time. “I want people to try. It’s such a fun thing to do.
Soon she had 15 women from across Melbourne happy to share their secrets to making homemade pasta; in the process, she learnt a lot about their lives. “When we started making pasta, all of their stories would pour out,” she says. “When I first met with the nonne I thought I would find disruption, that when they first moved here in the 50s and 60s they wouldn’t have been able to find ingredients,” she says. “I was completely wrong.”
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