"Behind an 11-window shopfront lies almost 500 sq m of shop floor, and a small maze of laboratories in which almost everything that can be made is made: bread, pizza, pies, cakes, biscuits, fresh egg pasta, sauces, baked pasta and other dishes that are ready to eat. The snake of glass-fronted counters also hold cheese, other dairy products, cured meats, and vegetables and olives preserved in various ways, while the shelves are packed with everyday provisions of good and practical quality."
"It also sells acini di pepe, a tiny pasta shaped like peppercorns and made of durum wheat, and pastina, another small pasta used mostly in soups or for stuffing into vegetables. Acini di pepe was the reason we first visited the shop six years ago, on the recommendation of a colleague, and at a time when I was writing a book about pasta and therefore trying to get my hands on as many shapes as possible."
Albanesi il forno delle meraviglie occupies almost 500 sq m behind an 11-window shopfront on Via Gerolamo Cardano, established in 1959 by Aldo Albanesi and run by his sons Adriano and Alessandro. A maze of laboratories produces bread, pizza, pies, cakes, biscuits, fresh egg pasta, sauces, baked pasta and ready-to-eat dishes. Glass-fronted counters offer cheese, dairy, cured meats, and preserved vegetables and olives, while shelves hold everyday provisions. The shop sells small pastas such as acini di pepe and pastina. A first visit six years earlier sought many pasta shapes, including stelline, alfabeto, puntine and risoni. To make a recipe, 300g of small pasta fills eight red pepper boats.
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