Trenette, Trenette Avvantaggiate

Ingredients Durum-wheat flour and water. For trenette avvantaggiate, durum- wheat flour, whole-wheat flour, and water.

How Made Narrow factory-made ribbons. Trenette are boiled in plenty of salted water.

Also Known As Linguine and bavette.

How Served As pastasciutta, with the typical sauces of Liguria. Trenette are usually boiled together with potatoes and green beans and served with pesto alla genovese.

Where Found Liguria, Genoa in particular.

Remarks Today, it is a gourmet treat, but both yesterday and today “advantaged” pasta—which is what avvantaggiata means literally, that is, containing some whole-wheat flour—costs less than the normal white pasta made entirely with white flour: this was actually the advantage for the consumer, who could rarely afford to buy wheat pasta. Pasta avvantaggiata could also contain 20 percent chestnut flour, which accentuated its dark color and further lowered the price.