To the uninitiated, making pasta from scratch can appear more trouble than it’s worth. After all, why spend your hard-earned cash on a large, expensive, hyper-specialised pasta machine when you can buy a packet of dried supermarket spaghetti for $2?
And for those who want to have a crack, the internet has a trove of intimidating videos: masterful Italian cooks sculpting egg, flour and water into marvellous shapes, with a skill and dexterity passed down through the generations. But while the barriers to entry can feel insurmountable, they don’t need to be. The first pasta makers did not possess a Marcato.
