Barricades in Bari: why the city’s ‘pasta grannies’ are under scrutiny | Italy
NUnzia Caputo stopped her playing on the street outside her grandmother Bari, and the ear -shaped pasta, which is believed to be caused by the Southern Italian Port city, called her to help those who pass the road.
“I took it out to play with my friend Giulia every afternoon, Cap Caputo said, now I started to cry 67. “
Caputo had more tears when he was appointed to the first sub-Par attempts. But soon, he turned the semolina dough into thin, snake -like rolls, cut small pieces of the tip, and used his thumb to create a distinguishing, internal shape.
He hasn’t stopped since then. Caputo is the most well -known of Makarna Grannies, a small group of women who come from the gates of their homes through the gates of their homes through the gates of their homes through Dell’arco Basso, who sells all day, every day, every day, every day, in the heart of the city.
Grannies of the historic street, the non-conflict mixture of fresh laundry from homemade pasta and balconies, was a great strife for tourists, threw the area-Gugings at a time, pits, bringing fame and prosperity to the city and the city.
However, meteoric success came with traps. The neighborhood, civilian police officers emerged and Orecchiette and pasta production equipment of some women produced commercially produced pasta and themselves because of the allegations of Orekchiette and Pasta making equipment in August. Some were also accused of cropping food safety standards and financial rules.
Three of the women fined 5,000 € (about 4,400 £) for fraudulent commercial activities. Grannies, who was infuriated by raids, lowered the entrances and barricade entrances into the street in a resistance demonstration.
RAID was part of an investigation that was initiated by Bari prosecutors last year and continued to determine whether there were any truths for the accusations that returned to the factory -making Orecchiette.
The doubts about the originality of the pasta have continued for years, but as a result of Bari’s pandemic explosion in tourism, it has become more prominent than cruise ships in the port of the city.
Local journalists, some tourists, suspected of tearing, searched the videos shared on social media. It is claimed that some women have purchased industrial orecchiette packages and emptied them into clear plastic bags before selling content like themselves.
Authorities, the most prominent evidence, the factory -made pasta for the outskirts of the old city of the old city of cardboard box poured poured into wheel boxes, he said.
Caputo, who presents Orecchiette Masterclasses and travels around the world to promote the tradition of Pasta, counts the British chief Jamie Oliver among his famous friends and says that he will always feed Pope Francis, whom he has always a package. The photographs taken with various visiting politicians, including a former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, adorn the walls.
Women were not among the women who were sentenced to fundamental, but women said that the police were “horrified” by Blitz as if they were stacking “weapons or drugs” instead of making pasta in an innocent way.
Pasta’s grandmother came together in a demonstration of solidarity after raids, but otherwise the opponents are lush under the surface. Most of them are strictly lips about the investigation, but a pasta manufacturer admitted to cut off the corners and sell industrial things. “Yes, I’m fined,” he said, refused to explain his name. “But what else did I have to do? The demand was so that I couldn’t continue.”
He said it was impossible for women to appeal to all tourists. “Look at them gawing and taking photos as if I were in a museum. It was never that way.”
Pietro Petruzzelli, a member of a municipal council, said that the council supports the tradition, but “It is to sell industrial pasta they cannot do.
Grannies’s problems may be far from ending. Gaetano Campolo, General Manager of Home Restaurant Hotel, who combines food enthusiasts with home chefs and homeowners, made a legal complaint that triggered the investigation and prosecutors saw it. He criticized the Bari Council for trying to establish a touristic attraction from something he claimed to have no “legal basis ..
“Honest, a dangerous operation that betrayes citizens who obey laws,” he said.
However, Caputo, who was preparing to travel to Singapore to introduce Orecchiette, brushed the investigation. Orum I feel surrounded by all this, ”he said,“ But I won’t stop doing this job. ”
