Pasta Is Pasta, Right? Wrong!
christina cooks: back to the cutting board

Pasta is pasta, right? You couldn't be more wrong. There's the cheap supermarket stuff that costs 60 cents a pound or you can buy...pasta. Real, authentic pasta makes you swoon with pleasure when you eat it. We'll talk all things pasta and visit an amazing family pasta company in Gragnano Italy. Recipes: Orecchiette con Patate e Rughetta; Spaghetti Nerano; Fettucine Alfredo.

Episode Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 402

About Christina Cooks: Back to the Cutting Board:

In CHRISTINA COOKS: BACK TO THE CUTTING BOARD, Christina Pirello shares healthy, fresh Italian and Mediterranean recipes as well as her brassy, insightful approach to liver, kidney and heart health and diabetes prevention.

Diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1983, Christina turned to a macrobiotic diet of whole grains and vegetables to aid in her recovery, launching the 20-plus year run of her Emmy Award-winning series Christina Cooks.


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