BUONO Strozzapreti 500g

Like many other Italian pasta types there are a number of stories about the origins of strozzapreti, which apparently existed even in the 14th century. The one we like best claims that this pasta got its name during the times when the Catholic Church owned a great deal of the land in Romagna. The church rented it out to the farmers. The farmers’ wives would often make the local priest a pasta dish as a form of rent payment. The husbands, obviously angered by this practice, wished the priest choked while he was stuffing himself with the pasta! Another theory is that the greedy priests were so enthralled by this particular type of pasta that they ate it too quickly and choked themselves, sometimes to death! Whatever its origins, the name seems to reflect a certain amount of anti-clericalism among the people of Central Italy in those days!