Italy is famous worldwide for its pasta and there is no other place in the world where one can enjoy a delicious dish of perfectly cooked pasta!
At Villa Le Barone, in Tuscany, after the “antipasti”, you can choose for dinner a dish of Italian pasta, either “fresh”, handmade by our chef, or “dry”, (that is dehydrated) , and accommodated in so many fashions! We use a very high quality pasta, eco labeled, made in Tuscany with Tuscan durum wheat produced in Tuscan farms, and every day, you can savor a different type of pasta!
Cooking pasta is not as easy as it sounds: it has to be cooked “al dente”, and at the last moment, and this is what we do at Villa le Barone. Of course, you will be able to taste the famous “spaghetti”, which take their name from the Italian name “spago”, which means “string”. We are preparing the spaghetti with the traditional “pomarola” (tomato sauce), but also with the “carbonara” sauce, a rich, creamy sauce of eggs, cheese and pork. We also prepare “tagliatelle”, whose name comes from the Italian “tagliare” since they are cut into long sheets of dough, and serve them with the “bolognese” or the lemon sauce, or with the 4 cheeses sauce (parmesan, pecorino, gorgonzola, taleggio). In autumn, we also accommodate them with fresh porcini mushrooms! And then, we serve the “ravioli”, small pasta envelopes
filled with stuffing often made of spinach and ricotta and served with butter and sage.
The “tortellini” (plural of tortellino which means “little pie”) which have a characteristic navel shape, are also stuffed with various mixtures of meat and parmesan, and can be served gratinated or in broth. The “lasagna” are made of alternating layers of pasta cut into large squares, of cheese, of bechamel, and of tomato sauce with meat. By the way, do you know that, already in the first century BC, Horace spoke of “Lagana” thin fried dough sheets, and that a 5th century cookbook describes a dish called “Lagana” made with layers of dough and meat?…
Every traveler will certainly want to experience the tasty sensations and unique flavors offered by the peculiarities of Italian cuisine. For a trip into the incomparable gustatory emotions of Italian pasta, choose Hotel Villa Le Barone!