Try to imagine an Italian abroad without pasta.
Try to imagine an Italian abroad struggling with bad pasta.
Perhaps it is even worse.
Of the many arts that our country has created, developed and passed down from the kitchen to the palate, that of drawing durum wheat and making delicacies in a variety of shapes and sizes is surely the most important one: without rigatoni, spaghetti, penne, linguine, fusilli and company, a thousand and one sauces and sauces that have made their way around the world would also be lost.
How dejected would a trenetta feel without its basil pesto?
How poorly would a bucatino sleep without guanciale for amatriciana?
And how unlikely would a sweet and jovial pen be instead of an angry one?
Joking aside, even Italians in Kenya know how important it is for pasta to be good and branded, and not just cheap.
Having eliminated (for us "al dente" people) Afro-Arab-Indian brands, we tend to look for the famous "value for money," which in the case of pasta has to accord with the "taste-to-cook ratio."
The Italian importer of Malindi Vinyasa really seems to have found the solution, relying on one of the historic Italian pasta factories that still produce as they did a century ago but at the same time are able, by containing costs, to export their types of pasta without losing the concept of craftsmanship and consequently the quality of the products. The history of Pastificio Tomadini in Pordenone, guardian of the ancient tradition of drying pasta with the wind from the valley, began in 1843 and has evolved over the years for 6 generations. Today the company has established partnerships with qualified suppliers to whom it supplies processing recipes and raw materials to obtain the best products to market. Tomadini is now a well-established national and international business, specializing in the production of pasta and tomato products.
"In my front office experience in the sale of Italian products, I know very well how important it is to focus on a special pasta," explains Diana Jebitok of Vinyasa, "I would say that with the arrival of Tomadini we have found a top product, unexceptionable.
Tomadini Pasta, as well as other Italian excellences, are sold exclusively in Kenya, retail and wholesale, at Vinyasa's supermarket on Malindi-Mombasa Road just across from the airport. Open daily Monday through Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.