We all love a good plate of pasta, but do we really know where our pasta comes from? Well, if you're buying from an Italian brand, it's possible you're getting it from one specific place. Nestled in between the Sorrento peninsula's rolling hills and the cerulean hues of the Mediterranean is a village where, for centuries, the scent of freshly made pasta wafted from workshops onto the streets.
Gragnano, a town of under 30,000 inhabitants near Naples — itself the home of pizza — can lay claim to being the "City of Pasta" and the birthplace of industrially produced dried pasta as we know it. The secret, however, was not in the dough, or the sauce — but in the air.
