Homemade Pasta Quotes

If you're going to buy pasta, you should buy dry pasta. If you're going to make it you can make the real thing, but you shouldn't buy fresh pasta.

I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.

The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.

I'm a big fan of a great glass of red wine and a delicious bowl of pasta made from scratch.

The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

At Spago, we make all of our pasta from scratch with egg yolks, so I'm always looking for new ways to play with egg whites.