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Origin
Liguria
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Description
Coin-shaped pasta from the eastern Liguria Levante coast, embossed with a decorative pattern using a traditional carved wooden stamp. The corzetti are made from a semolina and white wine dough, pressed thin and stamped with two-sided carved wooden coins that imprint a flower or geometric pattern. Dressed with a raw walnut pesto (salsa di noci) — cream, garlic, marjoram, pine nuts and walnuts — that clings to the embossed surface.
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The Thread
—Pasta with distinctive surface texture created by a wooden tool — same principle of a mechanical implement creating the surface character that holds sauce Southern · Italian
—Dough pressed with decorated stamps — same tradition of stamped patterns on food as both decoration and cultural identity Nordic
—Ligurian pasta with walnut or basil pesto — corzetti are the ceremonial version of Ligurian pasta, trenette the everyday Ligurian · Apennine
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Flavour Context
Creamy, nutty, garlicky and faintly bitter from the walnuts; marjoram adds an herbal brightness; the embossed pasta surface holds the thick sauce in its grooves — pasta as craft object and culinary vehicle simultaneously
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