Today is the date of the World Pasta Day, a special day for all the Made in Italy food lovers, but above all for our Italian pasta suppliers as Pastificio dei Campi, Pastificio Caponi, Pasta Bossolasco, Pasta Mancini, Pasta Benedetto Cavalieri, La Campofilone, Adamo Bio, Azienda Agricola la Fastuchera and many others. What groups in with these pasta producers are the selection of high quality raw materials, the maintenance of craft processes and the care for the details. These can be less profitable choices, that implies extra work, but they’re what let us taste such high level products. In this day our wishes and congratulations go out to these pasta makers, true ambassador of Italian taste and culture.

The visual impression is enough to understand the high quality of the PASTRY SHEETS / LASAGNE - PASTIFICIO CAPONI. The craft pasta processing at environmental temperature helps to preserve the best properties and aromas of durum wheat and eggs, 26 yolks per kg of flour, both exclusively from Italy. Moreover the hand working, differently from the industrial one, increases the absorbing power of the other ingredients and the consistency during the biting is better too. The final result is an exceptional product, as it is the implicit pasta Caponi message, showing us how personal knowledges and manual skills are, in some processes, still an irreplaceable added value in the food field.

Pastificio Caponi was born in 1953, in the province of Pisa, at the beginning oriented towards stuffed fresh pasta production, during the years the dried egg pasta was inserted, in the traditional formats like tagliatelle Caponi, Pappardelle (egg pasta) - Caponi and lasagne Caponi. The raw materials used come from local Tuscan suppliers selected and guaranteed, as the it happens in the case of the eggs (26 egg yolk per kg of flour) whole and opened one at time, while the durum wheat comes from Florence. The pasta is produced using the renewed original machineries of the pasta laboratory, which have the particular peculiarity to leave space for the manual work, still nowadays a big part of the process, without replacing it. As a consequence the result is an artisanal product, traditional and cared in every single detail, also due to the natural temperature drying, a long and expensive process that go to the detriment of quantity but guarantees an incredibili high quality of the final product.

To prepare great Bolognese lasagne the quality of the pastry sheet is essential, indeed often the pasta used in this typical specialty is overshadowed by the rest of the ingredients. A pastry sheet that can make is presence consistent gives an extra step to the recipe in its complex, for this reason the Pastificio Caponi has just begun the production of the lasagna sheets. PASTRY SHEETS / LASAGNE - PASTIFICIO CAPONI are an artisanal product, exactly like the home made pasta prepared by the most skilled Bolognese grandmothers. The formula is the usual: 24 egg yolks coming from selected breedings, Italian durum wheat semolina carefully selected and slow drying of 70-80 hours in order to maintain all the tastes and properties. Thanks to the first choice ingredients, the knowledges and the production skills, pasta Caponi represents an excellence with few rivals in the Italian gastronomic panorama.

Pastificio Caponi is an artisanal pasta laboratory in Tuscany which produces egg pasta as you grandparents did. Per each kg of pasta 24 egg yolks coming from selected breeding farms are used , and the laboratory produces only 200kg of pasta per day because it follows a productive process as similar as possible to the home-made one. Here's a video of the whole production https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdN1ZmRiJHs