Fusilli Bucati - Cav. Giuseppe Cocco
Fusilli Bucati by Cav. Giuseppe Cocco Bronze extruded Fusilli Bucati (Fusilli with the Hole) are the perfect pasta to make with your favorite sauces as they grab all the sauce in your plate and the hole gets filled too. Pasta Giuseppe Cocco is the most traditional Italian pasta made in Fara San Martino, Abruzzo. In 1916, at the age of 14, Domenico Cocco started to work in a pasta factory. Over the years his job turned into a passion and he soon learned the techniques and tricks of this art from the "Mastri Pastai" (pasta masters). He devoted his life to this fascinating job, guarded all its secrets and handed them down to his son Giuseppe. The old "Mastri Pastai" maintained that four ingredients are needed to make good pasta: mountain wheat, spring water, clean air for pasta drying and the processing technique. In 1944 Giuseppe Cocco started to work with his father. Together they had to go through the ordeal of finding the pasta machines parts, covered by the debris of the heavy bombin