Happy Holidays from the Pasta Grannies team! This is the last podcast episode of Season 1. Thank you for listening and we will return with a brand new Season 2 of the podcast in 2025.

In this special Holiday episode, we went to visit Canadian-born concert pianist, Hershey Felder at his Tuscan home in Florence, Italy. We visited Hershey in the height of summer so hopefully this episode brings you some warmth and sunshine this Winter season! Hershey has been a guest on the Pasta Grannies YouTube channel before, cooking a lasagna for us. He loves cooking pasta in his spare time, and confesses he wishes he was a pasta granny himself! For this episode, Hershey chose to make a basil flavoured pasta called Scialatielli by a granny called Felice that she prepared with a local smoked mozzarella. Felice was one of the first grannies Vicky ever filmed for Pasta Grannies, so it is fitting for this special Christmas episode.

Watch the video of Felice from Amalfi making her delicious basil flavoured pasta called Scialatielli, prepared with smoked mozzarella and eggplant or aubergine: https://youtu.be/NEFxfv2oE_Y?si=Hy_SOQPh3Wp-4nqM

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Produced by Megan Macqueen. Edited by Dave Depares.

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On the penultimate episode of Season 1 of the Pasta Grannies podcast, we have the lovely Rosie Mackean (aka RosieMackeanPastaQueen on Instagram!) as our guest. She is a trained chef, food stylist, home economist and recipe developer. After spending two years working in professional kitchens in London, UK, Rosie left that behind to turn her lifelong obsession for cookery books and TV shows into a career as a food stylist and home economist/ She has just released her very own debut book, 'Good Time Cooking'. In this episode, Rosie tells Vicky all about the massive lasagne she had at her wedding, a pasta fan's preferred option to the traditional wedding cake! Rosie also confesses to pretending to be on her own cookery TV show when she was younger, narrating her own recipes out loud.

Watch the video of Leondina making her meat filled cappelletti with a cream and speck sauce: https://youtu.be/_oSQzuqUMrA?si=B21nc4f_6BEUc8H4

Happy Holidays everyone! We will be back with our last episode of Season 1 of the Pasta Grannies Podcast on Christmas Day - a holiday special recorded in Florence in Italy.

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Produced by Megan Macqueen. Edited by Dave Depares.

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The Alberti Twins aka Double Trouble, John and Tony, are TV chefs, ex-dating show reality TV contestants, food content creators and have just released their second cookbook ‘Irresistibly Italian: Cooking Through the Seasons’. They grew up in Manchester in the North of England, but they have stayed close to their Italian roots through food! John and Tony have chosen to make Neda and Renata’s lunghetti pasta with a mushroom and sausage sauce as a nod to their Tuscan heritage. Whilst they cook, the twins try convince Vicky to like espresso coffee and explain what it was like being on the hit British reality TV dating show 'Love Island' as the 'Italian Stallions'.

Watch the video of Neda and Renata making their Tuscan lunghetti pasta with mushroom and sausage: https://youtu.be/Cnn_-vEcuvQ?si=nNZBsYLnfRqXSFfj

Follow us on Instagram @pastagrannies and for the exclusive video version of the podcast, head to our website pastagrannies.com

Produced by Megan Macqueen. Edited by Dave Depares.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.