“We prepared two sizes of pasta crocetti ‘stampata’ stamped with the letter ‘N’, which stands for Nesseler. So we continue the traditional habit of Ligurian and Piemontese families having their monogram on their own pasta stampata.

It was an instant pleasure to eat the smaller pasta with the SwipStix, just as a week earlier it had been to eat bacon-wrapped dates and discs of potatoes and carrots. The taller crocetti needed a different technique  (as did filled tomatoes a week earlier) because they were heavier, especially loaded with lots of pesto, which meant that we had to place our fingers on a different place on the SwipStix, a bit more towards the tip.

As soon we had learned a few tricks, it too was a pure pleasure!”

— P Nesseler, Germany