Cara Nonna Strozzapreti ai Broccoletti (Broccolini "Priest Stanglers")

"Cara Nonna" means "dear grandmother" and is the name given to a line of pastas based on the handmade pastas that were lovingly prepared by every Italian grandmother. Of course, today new technological methods are incorporated which emphasize bacteriological pureness while retaining the slow drying process, which maintains the true taste of homemade. Bronze molds are still used in order to obtain the surface "roughness" which allows sauces to adhere to the pasta and better incorporate the two into one great taste. Cara Nonna produces more than 80 cuts of pasta using durum wheat from the Apulgia area of southern Italy.

Strozzapreti or "priest stranglers" sounds like a strange name for a pasta yet every region of Italy seems to have its own version of this shape. Apparently, when the local priests were invited to various homes for dinner, they enjoyed this pasta so much that they ate a lot of it very quickly, even risking choking in the process. Cara Nonna's version has the addition of broccolini giving them a light green color and a more unique taste.

Each package of Cara Nonna Strozzapreti ai Broccoletti contains 500g or 1.1 lbs.