Word: pastificio
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...best source for answers, and Mecca to a pasta devotee, is a pastificio, or pasta factory, such as Gerardo di Nola in Castellammare di Stabia, about a 40-minute drive south of Naples. One of Italy's largest producers of premium pasta, it is a bright and airy factory where the starchy aroma suggests tons of boiling pasta. The current president, Gerardo Ronza, is a grandnephew of Gerardo di Nola, who founded the company in 1870. A slender, precise man who lives in an antiques-filled apartment over the factory, Ronza savors the lore and history of his product. Everything...
...high E-flat free-for-all with an octet of Chicago process servers (TIME, Nov. 28), plunged a legal fork into an Italian macaroni company. On the tines of her suit: Maria's ex-physician and husband's brother-in-law, Dr. Giovanni Cazzarolli, the Pastificio Pantanella Co. and Prince Marcantonio Pacelli, who is Pastificio's legal eagle as well as a nephew of Pope Pius XII. La Callas, 31, weighing in at a svelte 135 Ibs., charged that Dr. Cazzarolli had issued a false certificate, ballyhooed by the pasta firm in ads, stating that...
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