{"id":3529,"date":"2016-08-22T11:14:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T11:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2016-08-26T03:24:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T03:24:21","slug":"the-pasta-teller-chapter-1-trofie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/?p=3529","title":{"rendered":"The Pasta Teller – Chapter 1: Trofie"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Trofie<\/strong>” is\u00a0a typical pasta shape of Liguria, one of the regions of middle-northern Italy,\u00a0mainly in the area of Tigullio, precisely in Recco.<\/p>\n

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It has an unusual shape, similar to\u00a0the wood shavings of carpenters. In the past, women were used to make\u00a0their own trofie from the leftovers of previously made dough for other homemade preparations, so as\u00a0not to waste them. The traditional tool used was the “cua bicel\u00e4”,\u00a0<\/i>also called “buffetto<\/em>“, which is a wooden knitting needle. A little amount of dough was rolled around the needle and then the women pressed it with their fingers or the palm of the hand.<\/p>\n

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The origin of the name is uncertain, but it is possible that it derives right from this kind of preparation. In fact, the Genoese dialect word “struffugi\u00e2<\/em>” means literally “to rub”, describing the basic hand movement necessary to shape the pasta.<\/p>\n

Another theory is that the name has Greek origins, coming from the word “trophe<\/em>“, which means “nourishment”, or “torcere<\/em>“, which means “to twist”.<\/p>\n

The typical Genoese recipe requires\u00a0the trofie to be dressed with the Green Pesto<\/a>, one of the most famous pasta sauces, which is nowadays the icon of Genoa and Liguria themselves. The green pesto is made with basil, oil, pine nuts, Grana Padano and Pecorino Romano. It has a very simple and modest origin from the Medioevo, when the poor people tried to boost the\u00a0taste of\u00a0their \u00a0meals by adding some herbs to them. The first proper recipe of pesto dates\u00a0back to the 18th century.\u00a0An alternative is to boil the trofie with potatoes and green beans. The unique shape of trofie allows them\u00a0to be enveloped perfectly by any\u00a0sauce.<\/p>\n

Since 1985, a festival focused on trofie is organised yearly in Sori to celebrate this delicious and meaningful food.<\/p>\n

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“Trofie” is\u00a0a typical pasta shape of Liguria, one of the regions of middle-northern Italy,\u00a0mainly in the area of Tigullio, precisely in Recco. It has an unusual shape, similar to\u00a0the wood shavings of carpenters. In the past, women were used to make\u00a0their own trofie from the leftovers of previously made dough for other homemade preparations, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3557,"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions\/3557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookwithgusto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}