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Default a different way to make gnocci


"Mark Thorson" ha scritto nel messaggio

> I'm watching a Spanish language cooking show,
> and the chef is making gnocci in a way I've never
> seen before.
>
> He made a sheet of pasta using a pasta machine,
> cut it up into squares, then he used this tool
> I've never seen before. The tool has two parts,
> a wooden rod about the diameter of a pencil
> and a wood block about 3 x 5 inches with a set
> of fine parallel grooves in the long dimension.


Those would only be called gnocchi in Sardegna, as far as I know. Hand
formed pasta tubes, ripples, etc. are common in all the regions, but gnocchi
means dumplings of some sort in all of them but Sardegna. Perhaps Vilco can
tell us other exceptions.