How many years has she fed family and friends through this combination of flour, egg and oil? When I came across this video of Elia Neri making pasta dough for homemade tagliatelle, I watched, marveling as her hands worked, so knowing from the years.

The slow pace of this video is like following a Tuscan countryside road on a hot day: you’ll want to hurry to its end, or even leave it unfinished. But watch! Realize that she’s rolling her dough on a small, cubic meter-sized square board. Tell me you aren’t awestruck when you see her unfurl her sheet of pasta onto a table the full length of the room! And then watch as she rolls the pasta sheet, cuts the tagliatelle and again unfurls those ribbons of pasta and lays them on her table.

Elia is my pasta heroine!

(Even though the video is in Italian, you’ll certainly understand the work of her hands.
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