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Introduction to the First Italian Edition

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Encyclopedia of Pasta

By Oretta Zanini de Vita

Published 2009

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[Corrado Barberis, President of the Italian Institute of Rural Sociology]

In the beginning was the gnocco. Our ancestors learned that by adding water to flour and subjecting the mixture to intense pressure, the resulting mass could yield both what we call pasta and what we call bread. The difference was only in the addition of a little yeast or salt. The mother of all the pastas is thus represented by an enormous gnocco. If allowed to ferment, it begins to become bread dough. If not, it can be worked into fresh noodles and dried. Or it can be formed into the true gnocchi of our gastronomic treatises. German best expresses this intuition: from the massive corpulence of the dumpling (Knödel, gnocco in Italian) derives the airy lightness of the noodle (Nudel).1

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