About pasta

A Few Words

History

How pasta is made

Pasta for a healthy life

Mediterranean Diet

A Few Words

Pasta is one of the most appealing foods for people of all ages worldwide. Quick and easy to make and packed with nutrients, pasta combines deliciously with practically everything. And above all, you can enjoy its delicious taste without guilt, as it is neither heavy nor fattening. In fact, pasta is one of the most healthful and nutritious foods for all ages and it is now recommended as one of the basic dishes of the famous "Mediterranean Diet". A light and easy to digest source of energy, rich in carbohydrates and particularly low in fat, cholesterol and sodium. It would be hard to find a more movingly direct hymn to the glories of pasta than the humble hymn of English writer Somerset Maugham, who wrote: " I like all simple things; boiled eggs, oysters and caviar, truite au bleu, grilled salmon, roast lamb, cold grouse, treacle tart and rice pudding. But of all simple things the only one I can eat day in day out, not only without disgust but with the eagerness of an appetite unimpaired by excess, is macaroni" From the short story The Hairless Mexican