Tag: Gondola Macaroni
tuesday march 18th 2008
If it’s St. Joseph’s Day, We Must Have Pasta con Sarde
Tomorrow is St. Joseph's Day, a celebration which began in Sicily in the Middle Ages when the region experienced severe drought. In desperation, the people asked St. Joseph, their patron, to intervene. They promised, if rain came, that they would prepare a big feast in his honor. These prayers were answered with rainy weather and, in gratitude, huge banquet tables were set up in the streets and the poor were invited to come and eat as much as they wanted.
Preparing a St. Joseph’s Table is a daunting and labor intensive task. It involves cooking several different dishes in order to fill the dinner table with a bounty that could feed the masses. Growing up in a Sicilian family, I looked forward to St. Joseph Day and to the feast my family would lovingly prepare. One of the dishes I enjoyed the most is Pasta con Sarde (pasta with sardines). Although my family made their sarde sauce from scratch, I have a short cut version that takes minutes to prepare, and you can get the ingredients ev…
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sunday august 12th 2007
Transport Your Tastebuds: Visit Gondola Macaroni
On the corner of Niagara and Austin sits a Buffalo institution--Gondola Macaroni Products. Started in a West Side home in 1958, Gondola moved to their current location at 1985 Niagara Street in 1968 and have been crafting handmade pasta products ever since.
The array of pasta available at Gondola is enough to send an indecisive grocery shopper into an apoplectic state. Walk through the door of this store front, and you’ll find ravioli (cheese, meat, spinach and lobster), tortellini (cheese and meat), stuffed shells (cheese and spinach), a huge variety of egg noodles (two thicknesses of plain egg noodles, in addition to tomato, saffron, squid ink, spinach, red hot pepper, black pepper, carrot, and garlic egg noodles), and to top it all off (literally), tomato sauce (plain and meat).
All of the Gondola pasta is made by hand, using durum flour, water and eggs. After the ingre…
