COOK LIKE AN ITALIAN

Always boil pasta in a very large pan of salted water. If you don’t give it enough space to move around in the pan, it will stick together. Italians say the water should be as salty as the sea to y>ÛŖÕÀ Ìiji «>ÃÌ>° DON’T FORGET! DID YOU KNOW? When draining the pasta, save a cup of the cooking water. When you add the pasta to the sauce, splash in a little of this water if it looks too dry. The starch in the liquid will help the sauce cling to the pasta. Most of the pasta produced in Italy is made from durum wheat. Durum is a tough grain, providing durum wheat pasta with its distinctive bite. It is a golden coloured grain, which also gives the pasta a yellow hue.