Cristina Cagliolo is a Neapolitan middle-class woman who tells about her passion for cooking, through the memory of her childhood in Nola. There, the traditions of the family were strongly tied with food, like the ritual for the making of the “pettola”, a thin homemade dough used for making tagliatelle or other kinds of pasta. These products are the main ingredient of many dishes of Campania region (in the past, the “pettola” was the shirttail of the shirt going off the jacket). 

Cristina Cagliolo demonstrates how to prepare the homemade pasta with simple and genuine ingredients.

Document by: Domenico Rispo, Jacopo Deleacaes, Marianna De Vivo
Video by: Domenico Rispo, Jacopo Deleacaes, Marianna De Vivo
Created: 30-05-2012
Cristina Cagliolo

Cristina Cagliolo

Year: 14-08-1950
City: Nola
Profession: Teacher/Professor
Languages: Italian

Video table of contents

- 00:09 Nola in the fifties’
- 01:55 The Criscito
- 02:20 Cooking and Creativity
- 03:05 The famous Pettole
- 04:39 Tortano and Pastiera
- 04:56 Cerere and the legend of the Grain
- 05:37 The family and the Mediterranean Flavours
- 07.55 Pizza with the Pumpkin flowers and Cicerchie Soup
- 09:22 La Pettola: how to prepare it
- 12:52 Homemade Pasta!

Geographic information

Country: IT
Region: Campania
City: Napoli
District: NA
Locality: Vomero
Altitude: 17m s.l.m.

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References

Bibliografia:
Eduardo De Filippo, "Natale in casa Cupiello", 1931