Pasta Sisters Boasts Scratch-Made Pasta and Sauces
References: westsidetoday
Pasta Sisters, a family-owned Italian restaurant brand based in Los Angeles, has introduced its first retail line. The company's high-quality, scratch-made pasta and sauces are now available in grocery aisles through a partnership with Southern California Gelson’s locations, with select items also available at Claro’s Italian Markets.
Pasta Sisters' inaugural scratch-made pasta line and sauces include spaghetti, tagliatelle, tortellini, meat lasagna, and bolognese sauce. These offerings are produced using traditional methods. The restaurant hand-cuts the pasta daily, sources flour from a mill in Veneto, Italy, and slow-simmers the bolognese for nine hours. Notably, Pasta Sisters owns the only tortellini-making machine in the United States approved by the Bologna Chamber of Commerce and the Learned Brotherhood of the Tortellino.
Pasta Sisters also utilizes a flash-freezing process intended to preserve the texture and flavor of its line by rapidly lowering temperatures to prevent large ice crystals from forming.
Image Credit: Pasta Sisters
Pasta Sisters' inaugural scratch-made pasta line and sauces include spaghetti, tagliatelle, tortellini, meat lasagna, and bolognese sauce. These offerings are produced using traditional methods. The restaurant hand-cuts the pasta daily, sources flour from a mill in Veneto, Italy, and slow-simmers the bolognese for nine hours. Notably, Pasta Sisters owns the only tortellini-making machine in the United States approved by the Bologna Chamber of Commerce and the Learned Brotherhood of the Tortellino.
Pasta Sisters also utilizes a flash-freezing process intended to preserve the texture and flavor of its line by rapidly lowering temperatures to prevent large ice crystals from forming.
Image Credit: Pasta Sisters
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Retailization of Restaurant-quality Foods — Premium restaurant-made products entering grocery aisles create opportunities to transform dine-in recipes into packaged premium retail SKUs with provenance-driven branding.
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