Handmade Semolina Pasta with Sfoglina Simonetta Capotondo

A hands-on in-person cooking class culminating in a dinner served with wine and beer. This class is limited to 14 students. Review our registration and cancellation policies here. 

We're excited to host an award-winning pasta maker, Simonetta Capotondo, in our classroom! Join us and learn how to make homemade pasta that doesn't require bulky appliances. These traditional pastas can be made with simple tools you already have: butter knife, fork, skewer, scraper. Perfect for anyone with a small kitchen or just starting their journey into handmade pasta. 

With Simonetta's guidance, you'll make a semolina dough and learn the proper kneading and shaping techniques for regional pasta varieties. We'll dine on our fresh pasta, simply dressed in seasonal sauces, toasting with a glass of wine to a job well done!

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Fresh Semolina Pasta:

• Ligurian Trofie
• Sardinian Lorighittas and Malloreddus 
• Puglian Orecchiette and Cavatelli
• Sicilian Busiate 

Simple Tomato Sauce

Pesto con Fagiolini—Pesto with Potatoes and Green Beans

Seasonal Salad

Bi-Rite Creamery Seasonal Fruit Sorbet

This menu contains the following common allergens: Wheat. If you have allergies or dietary restrictions that concern your ability to cook along, please e-mail info@18reasons.org before purchasing a ticket.

Let’s Cook Together! 

Simonetta Capotondo is a professional sfoglina, an Italian woman dedicated to the craft of rolling out sheets of egg pasta. She won the second prize in the “Sfoglino d’oro” International Contest.She defines herself as a traveling sfoglina, because with little equipment (boards and rolling pins) she can hold lessons anywhere. Her passion for this art is linked to her memories of her grandmother: the inviting smell of the dough she used to make, the way she skilfully rolled it out with her mattarello, which is the Italian word for rolling pin, the sound of her knife moving swiftly on the chopping board, and, finally, the tagliatelle unrolling from her hands, a gesture that left Simonetta enchanted every time. But the art of rolling out sheets of pasta it is not only a familiar gesture that brings us back to the past, it is also one of the many ancient crafts that characterizes her culinary cultural heritage. There are so many traditional pasta recipes in Italy, not only egg pasta. Simonetta's craft is teaching every kind of handmade fresh pasta. You can learn more about Simonetta here.