but this article about it intrigued me,
the small town of Nuoro, on Italy’s Sardinia
island, is home to what many are calling the world’s rarest pasta, an
intricate, hand-made treat that only a handful of people can make, known as su filindeu (in Sardinia’s Sardo dialect), or Fili
di Dio (in Italian), and translated as threads of God, this traditional pasta
had been linked to La Festa di San Francesco, an ancient religious ritual
celebrated every year, in May. For the past two hundred years, the only way to
try threads of god pasta was to complete a 33km pilgrimage on foot or horseback
from Nuoro to the village of Lula. But because this sacred dish is in
serious danger of becoming extinct, the only three women in the
world who know how to make it, have been trying to save it by making it more
accessible, 67-year-old named Paola Abraini picked up the skills to make
threads of god pasta from her mother, who also learned them from her mother,
and so on for many generations. However, only one of her two daughters knows
the basic technique, but lacks the passion and the patience necessary to carry
on the family tradition. The only other two women who she managed to pass on
her knowledge to – Abraini’s niece and her sister-in-law – don’t have any
daughters to pass the secrets to, so su filindeu is in grave danger of
vanishing, it is a fascinating story, apparently the pasta can only be made by hand, a team of engineers from Barilla pasta came to see if they
could reproduce her technique with a machine. They couldn’t, for the full story of 'The Treads Of God', have a look here.
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