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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Miranda Bryant

The secret behind Britain’s top pasta chef’s winning dish? It’s gluten free and vegan

Antonio Alderuccio, pasta chef of the year
Antonio Alderuccio, pasta chef of the year, holding a piece of the pasta that won him the award. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer

While sauces, shapes and flavours almost endlessly vary, for hundreds of years all the best pastas have been bound together by one key ingredient: gluten. But Antonio Alderuccio’s revered pasta is different.

Proudly holding the uncooked, yellow, tubular paccheri in his London kitchen, he lists its two ingredients – rice and corn, neither of which contains gluten.

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