Ingredients Durum-wheat flour and water.
How Made Factory-made long tube. Ziti are boiled in plenty of salted water.
Also Known As Busiata and maccheroni di zita. In Molise, they are called a pasta d’à festa, and in Puglia, stivalette.
How Served As pastasciutta, with traditional local sauces.
Where Found Originally Sicily; today throughout Italy.
The name means literally “grooms” or “brides.” This is the pasta for feast days in different regions. Popular belief in Molise, for example, calls for making it on the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6) to ward off seeing the devil on your deathbed.
