Pasta Love: Author Talk and Pasta Demonstration with Jaclyn Crupi

According to Jaclyn Crupi – a proud Italian-Australian pasta maker and devotee – pasta is love, pasta is life. Pasta can be a quick and simple meal or a culinary masterpiece, but in essence it is about generosity, comfort and the beauty to be found in simplicity. Her book Pasta Love is a celebration of pasta and the people who make it.

Join Jaclyn to learn how to make fresh pasta at home and how to improve your dried pasta dishes. Hear stories of the incredible pasta nonne (Italian grandmothers) Jaclyn has been making pasta with and learn their pasta-making ways.
Jaclyn will demonstrate how to make a semola rimacinata flour and water pasta dough and then shape it into cavatelli, orecchiette, fusilli al ferretto, lorighittas and many more pasta shapes. So if you’re keen to give pasta making a go, or you just love all things pasta, this is the event for you.

Jaclyn Crupi is an author, book editor, event host and bookseller. Jaclyn has worked in publishing and bookselling since 2002. She has written numerous books for both children and adults. Her recent book, Garden Like a Nonno, was shortlisted for an Indie Book Award and longlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award. Her most recent book for children, The ABC Kids Guide to Loving the Planet, was awarded the Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature.