How I Buy Pasta Like An Italian Chef (up your pasta game for good)

Dry Pasta Series Ep5 : Pasta brands, shapes, mentions, everything you need to know to start buying pasta like an Italian Chef. This video is sponsored by BetterHelp: Visit https://betterhelp.com/alex to get 10% off your first month. For the Pasta poster : https://www.frenchguycooking.com/shop_en_na Get the Pasta Posters : 24 pasta shapes and their sauces pairings per poster, available in dark or light colours : https://www.frenchguycooking.com/shop_en_na (American shop) Europe Shop : https://www.frenchguycooking.com/shop_en_eu#!/ Big thanks to EATALY Marais for having us. 37 Rue Sainte-Croix de la Bretonnerie, 75004 Paris http://www.eataly.ft To all of you asking, the bike I ride is a Van Moof S3. Hardly gets any better than this : https://www.vanmoof.com/en-FR/s3?color=dark# If you don’t buy the right pasta, you CANNOT make good pasta dishes. Great Industrial Pasta brands : De Cecco, La Molisana, Di Martino, Felicetti, Rummo, Garofalo, Agnesi, Voiello (Barilla left the chat) Great Artisan Pasta Brands : Benedetto-cavalieri, Mancini, Monograno, Faella, Gentile, Martelli, Pastificio dei campi At all time in my pantry, I make sure to have at least one type of : LONG PASTA : like spaghetti, fettuccine SHORT PASTA : Rigatoni, farfalle, TINY PASTA : Stelline, risoni Pasta names : Spaghetti : comes spago means string in italian. Penne is like a “feather” Conchiglie = a seashell Orecchiette = little ears Farfalle = butterfly Lumache = Snail Pasta size variations The PASTA geek inside of me loves what follows : It’s a common thing for Italian pasta makers to use classic shapes and make them larger or smaller. When they do so, they alter the name of the pasta slightly… - Diminutive suffixes : -ini, -elli, -illi, -etti or the feminine plurals -ine, -elle, -ette etc., all conveying the sense of "little" - Augmentative suffixes : -oni, -one, meaning "large". Sometimes instead of a suffix pasta makers will use an additional word : Mezze which means HALF : mezze penne, mezze maniche Picoli which means small : picoli ditali Giganti : which means giant : Fusili Giganti Just imagine the size of this one Lumac-oni Giganti (like a Sauce Wheelbarrow) Important Pasta Package mentions - Trafilatura (or trafila) al bronzo (the best) - Lenta essiccazione, bassa temperatura (also the best, haha) - Pasta di Gragnano I've set up a free and private mailing list for us geeky chefs ! Join here : https://mailchi.mp/3de2df6a9518/stay-tuned (100% better than YouTube notifications ) Support my work on : https://www.patreon.com/frenchguycooking Get My cookbook : http://smarturl.it/FrenchGuyCooking Get my posters and t-shirts : https://www.frenchguycooking.com/shop_en_na Become a member now ! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPzFLpOblZEaIx2lpym1l1A/join Submit subtitles here : http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?tab=2&c=UCPzFLpOblZEaIx2lpym1l1A Do you know StoryBlocks ? Great stock footage for your own videos : https://videoblocks.go2cloud.org/SHHp Amazing audio footage for your own videos : https://videoblocks.go2cloud.org/SHHt Music by Epidemic sound : http://share.epidemicsound.com/sLDCS Music by Artlist : https://artlist.io/artlist-70446/?artlist_aid=frenchguycooking_496&utm_source=affiliate_p&utm_medium=frenchguycooking_496&utm_campaign=frenchguycooking_496 ( Get 2 extra months on your Artlist subscription) Amazing Video Footage by Artgrid.io : https://artgrid.io/Artgrid-114820/?artlist_aid=frenchguycooking_496&utm_source=affiliate_p&utm_medium=frenchguycooking_496&utm_campaign=frenchguycooking_496 My other social accounts : http://www.facebook.com/frenchguycooking http://instagram.com/frenchguycooking http://www.twitter.com/frenchguycookin Director, Author, Host & Camera : Alex Editor and Co-Author : Joshua Mark Sadler Producer : Eva Zadeh Assistant editor : Luca Hohler Camera Operator : Antony Gomes Planning a foodie trip to Paris ? Here are my favorite spots : https://www.frenchguycooking.com/wtf/220/what-to-doseeeat-in-paris-france Salut, Alex