I have discovered Rummo pasta and I like it. Why is it a cut above your run-of-the-mill Italian pasta? Well, for two reasons.
Firstly, because Rummo use good quality (Australian!) wheat, Rummo pasta has a higher than normal protein level, and secondly, because Rummo’s special slow manufacturing process creates a higher quality pasta.
Rummo's Lovely Pasta
Indeed, I have found that the pasta dishes using Rummo pasta are richer and have more body than other more everyday pastas – but, be warned, if you overcook this pasta, you will ruin it. A boiling time is given on all packets, but you should keep testing the cooking pasta regularly, every few minutes or so, until you think it is cooked in the way you want it to be.
In practice, how long you need to keep that pasta boiling depends on the type of pasta (fusilli, farfalle, spaghetti, etc.) the quantity of water, and whether the water is boiling vigorously or not – and, of course, how you like your pasta. From experience I’ve found that the time given on pasta packets is something of a minimum, but I’m no expert pasta preparer. I tend to like my pasta tender, but not floppy, however I’m not too keen on pasta cooked ‘al dente’. ‘Al dente’ means that pasta is only just cooked and still a little hard. Many Italians prefer their pasta this way.
Note that cooking pasta ‘al dente’ is something to be done with dried, but not fresh, pasta.
Rummo Pasta is in America
Rummo’s special ‘Lenta Lavorazione’ pasta, as it is known, is available in the States, and a little bird has told me that it will soon be available in the UK too, if it is not already. Apparently Rummo pasta is distributed to Italian restaurants in the US, so if Italian-American restaurateurs give it the thumbs up, it must be OK.
If you would like to know more about the subject of ‘lenta lavorazione’, there is an article about it here. Many thanks to Phil of moveablefeast for this link.
Try Rummo pasta! You may well like it. As well as being great every day you feel like a pasta dish, Rummo pasta would be good for those special occasions when pasta which is a cut above the rest is called for.
Update: 7 March 2009
Where to Get Rummo Pasta in the USA
For those who live in in the USA, Blog from Italy has been contacted by one Nicholas Daragona of Doro Foods ltd, a company based in New York which sells Rummo products on-line. Store owners in the US might also be interested to hear that Doro Foods also sell wholesale quantities of Rummo pasta too. Great news for Rummo pasta fans! With a little luck, Rummo pasta should be coming to a store near you soon!
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Nice to know about this. I’m in Canada and will have to look to see if its available here. It would be a nice substitute to making my own pasta and avoiding that aweful cardboard stuff you get at the local supermarket. While looking up Lenta Lavorazione I found this article that may be of interest to US foodies: http://www.specialtyfoodamerica.com/Corporate%20News/Rummo_Pasta_History_and_Exclusive_Lenta_Lavorazione_Process.htm
Thanks for the great post….
Phil @ http://moveablefeast.wordpress.com
Hi Phil,
I hope you do manage to find Rummo pasta in Canada, but I’m not sure it is available there yet. I shall speak to the little bird.
Thanks for the link – I know that Rummo is distributed in the states, but the ‘Lenta Lavorazione’ pasta is quite a new product and I don’t know when it will appear State or Canada side. Maybe I can find out and if I do, I’ll post about it.
All the best,
Alex
Hi Alex,
Just remove the final period (i.e., “.”) from the link and you’ll be taken there.
Rummo pasta showed up at my favorite grocery in Los Angeles and after googling I had to try it.
Wow.
I hope it is there as a regular feature and not a “one off” as the quality and texture is EXCELLENT. Kudos to Rummo!
Oops!
Alex, when I said “one off” I meant that it was a special deal, only to be available at that one time. I have no questions about it’s quality, it is Excellent!
This week I’ll be back at that market, hoping it is still on the shelves…
Happy new year to you,
Ohiogirl
Alex,
I spoke to the manager of my grocery and it is not a pasta that they are able to get every week. However when I told him how well regarded it is and how good it was, he smiled. He’d WONDERED why they had gone through three entire pallets of the pasta in a week! He said that he’d tell his buyers to keep their eyes out for it and it looks like he did. It’s back on sale this week!
Alex,
I think Rummo IS wending it’s way through the US.
In Los Angeles, the market I find it at sometimes, is “Superking” on San Fernando. It’s a giant ethnic market with great sales.
However I just got a call from my dad, and Rummo was featured in a weekly ad for Marc’s (a discount food/drug chain in Ohio). I don’t know if they will carry it regularly, but for one week they had it three pounds for $2. My dad stocked up!
I have yet to see it in the “regular” grocery stores, but if I do, I’ll let you know.
Thanks for the update, Ohiogirl,
Good to hear that Rummo is invading the States, well, sort of!
And you have converted your Dad too!
Maybe you should apply to Rummo for the job of sales rep!
Best,
Alex
Hi ohiogirl,
Thanks for dropping in. Rummo pasta is a little different and nicer than regular pasta, and you should not find the quality to be ‘one off’ – it’s made to be the way it is, which is why it is better than your average pasta! And this is why it caught my attention. I tried it and I liked it.
Kind regards,
Alex
Oops me! My mistake ohiogirl! Must get those reading glasses out, well I would if I had some. Brain was addled by lasting effects of New Year’s festivities I imagine.
I hope that your market stocks Rummo once more – when I wrote this post, a while ago admittedly, Rummo was available to Italian restaurateurs in the US, but not I believe to US pasta fans in general. If this has changed, then that is GOOD news!
Please let me know if you manage to get hold of Rummo’s yummy pasta once more!
Thanks and Happy New Year to you too!
Alex
Hi Ohiogirl,
Thanks for the update! Sounds as though Rummo pasta is on the verge of being discovered in the US. Great news! It is a very good product. Good to hear that the grocery manger has got some more in too. Go on, give us the name of the shop!
Maybe I should forward a link to this post to the Rummo people so that other buyers can find it in the States. New President, new pasta! Yes we can!
All the best,
Alex