Making My Own Pasta at Giovanni Rana Pastificio E Cucina Recipe

By: Wela Quan

Have you ever thought about how pasta is made?

Setting up! Although Giovanni Rana may not be a name familiar to many Americans, in Italy his name has long been synonymous with fresh made pasta. The Pastificio E Cucina is located in a beautiful Chelsea Market space with high ceilings right on 9th Avenue. For the evening’s class, we were going to be making a green market tortelli as well as a tiramisu tortelli both to be made completely from scratch using fresh ingredients. I was very surprised to learn that the class was going to be lead by none other than Antonella Rana – Giovanni’s daughter in law. Staying true to being a family business, Antonella’s son and young daughter were also part of the teaching which…