"Nunzia Caputo was five years old when her grandmother put a stop to her playing on the street outside their home in Bari and summoned her to help make orecchiette, the ear-shaped pasta believed to have originated in the southern Italian port city, to be sold to passersby. I used to go out to play every afternoon with my friend Giulia, said Caputo, now 67. But then, on a whim, my grandmother said I wasn't allowed to do that any more."
"Caputo is the most well-known of Bari's so-called pasta grannies, a small group of women who from the doorsteps of their homes along Via dell'Arco Basso, a cobbled alleyway in the heart of the city's old town, make and sell all day, every day. The historic street's irresistible blend of the grannies, homemade pasta and fresh laundry billowing from balconies has been a major pull for tourists, catapulting the area once a no-go zone because muggings were rife to worldwide fame"
Nunzia Caputo began learning to make orecchiette at age five and has produced the pasta daily since. A small group of women known as Bari's pasta grannies make and sell fresh orecchiette from doorsteps along Via dell'Arco Basso. The combination of handmade pasta, street life and laundry has attracted tourists and turned a former no-go area into a nổi tiếng destination, generating income for the women and the city. Authorities later intervened, confiscating pasta and equipment amid allegations of commercially sourced product, breaches of food safety rules and fiscal concerns, provoking controversy and scrutiny.
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