


My goal to make 100 different pasta shapes will give me 100 ways to be present, and 100 ways to feed someone,” she wrote, not yet at the finish line. “Learning 100 shapes gives me 100 different ways to share my craft with someone. “Fresh, frozen or dried,” she made it all, before realizing that she, “could only eat so much.” Then she dove into the books, and followed the Pasta Grannies on YouTube. She returned home “armed with recipes for two different types of pasta dough, a foundation of pasta shapes and the experience of making pasta in 90-degree heat.” Pasta became her beloved hobby two years ago after she traveled in Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, eventually enrolling solo in an Airbnb pasta-making class with newlyweds. This isn’t a new hobby for Stephanie, a resident of Upstate New York. “While I'd love to try to make all of them at least once in my life, 100 felt like a nice round number, something I can put my heart into that wasn’t a short term project.” “Why 100? There are approximately 350 pasta shapes documented in Italian cuisine,” she wrote in an article this week. But then, she vowed to do something bold and unique: learn to make 100 different shapes of pasta. Writer Stephanie Gravalese admits that she fell for the Instagram food waves: sourdough, whipped coffee, and banana bread. Making homemade pasta was one of the hobbies that helped many keep their sanity during quarantine, but for some, it was an opportunity to push their culinary skills to the next level.
