I have discovered Rummo pasta and I like it. Why is it a cut above your run-of-the-mill Italian pasta? Well, for two reasons.
Firstly, because Rummo use good quality (Australian!) wheat, Rummo pasta has a higher than normal protein level, and secondly, because Rummo’s special slow manufacturing process creates a higher quality pasta.

Rummo's Lovely Pasta
Indeed, I have found that the pasta dishes using Rummo pasta are richer and have more body than other more everyday pastas – but, be warned, if you overcook this pasta, you will ruin it. A boiling time is given on all packets, but you should keep testing the cooking pasta regularly, every few minutes or so, until you think it is cooked in the way you want it to be.
In practice, how long you need to keep that pasta boiling depends on the type of pasta (fusilli, farfalle, spaghetti, etc.) the quantity of water, and whether the water is boiling vigorously or not – and, of course, how you like your pasta. From experience I’ve found that the time given on pasta packets is something of a minimum, but I’m no expert pasta preparer. I tend to like my pasta tender, but not floppy, however I’m not too keen on pasta cooked ‘al dente’. ‘Al dente’ means that pasta is only just cooked and still a little hard. Many Italians prefer their pasta this way.
Note that cooking pasta ‘al dente’ is something to be done with dried, but not fresh, pasta.
Rummo Pasta is in America
Rummo’s special ‘Lenta Lavorazione’ pasta, as it is known, is available in the States, and a little bird has told me that it will soon be available in the UK too, if it is not already. Apparently Rummo pasta is distributed to Italian restaurants in the US, so if Italian-American restaurateurs give it the thumbs up, it must be OK.
If you would like to know more about the subject of ‘lenta lavorazione’, there is an article about it here. Many thanks to Phil of moveablefeast for this link.
Try Rummo pasta! You may well like it. As well as being great every day you feel like a pasta dish, Rummo pasta would be good for those special occasions when pasta which is a cut above the rest is called for.
Update: 7 March 2009
Where to Get Rummo Pasta in the USA
For those who live in in the USA, Blog from Italy has been contacted by one Nicholas Daragona of Doro Foods ltd, a company based in New York which sells Rummo products on-line. Store owners in the US might also be interested to hear that Doro Foods also sell wholesale quantities of Rummo pasta too. Great news for Rummo pasta fans! With a little luck, Rummo pasta should be coming to a store near you soon!
Visit Doro Foods ltd!
Please mention Blog from Italy if you do happen to contact Doro Foods.
Thanks! – Alex Roe – Blog from Italy’s publisher. And no, cash has not changed hands with regard to this update.
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