Organic Manfredi Lunghi Pasta

There's nothing more elegant than the long, ruffled edges of our organic manfredi lunghi, a fanciful pasta that’s sometimes also called mafaldine or reginette. While the shape was a longtime favorite in Campania, some local pasta makers renamed their Manfredi to celebrate the birth of Princess Mafalda of Savoy (reginette means “little queens”) in 1902. True to pasta-making tradition, our manfredi is super-sized, measuring some 22 inches in length! Before machines could easily cut pasta to consistent sizes, pasta would be hung to dry at whatever length the dough created. It was sold extra-long, with the intention that home cooks would break the pasta up to suit their needs; in Naples, the cracking sound of pasta being broken for Sunday dinner would echo through the streets. Giadzy Pasta is the result of years of careful taste-testing and research with master pasta makers from across Italy. To perfect our first in-house product line, Giada De Laurentiis and the Giadzy team zeroed in on w