Nothing says comfort food better than a heaping bowl of pasta ladled with piping hot sauce (or, as some like to call it, gravy). For a wide variety of handmade pastas and sauces, carb-ivores with a craving for the best of the best should make their way to West Chester’s Artisan Exchange and pay a visit to the Aunt Mamie’s Italian Specialties stand.
Aunt Mamie’s recipes come straight from the small southern town of San Nicola Dell’Alto, Italy. Authentic homemade pastas include spaghetti, fettuccini, papardelle, rigatoni, linguine, tomato basil fettuccini, spinach fettuccini, ricotta gnocchi, potato gnocchi, three cheese ravioli, spinach ricotta ravioli, pumpkin ravioli, mushroom ravioli, manicotti and more. Each week a different assortment of pastas is available at the market, which means that there’s always something new to try. (Find the fresh pastas of the week listed on Aunt Mamie’s website.)
To make your homemade meal complete, pick up one of Aunt Mamie’s sauces too—available in marinara and rosa. Simple and hearty, the sauces are hand-crafted from recipes that have fed several generations of the Aunt Mamie’s family. (Side note: Don’t you wish you grew up in that family?) Aunt Mamie’s even takes special orders. Just let them know what you need via their website, and they’ll have it ready for you at the market!
Ready to mangia? Visit Aunt Mamie’s Specialty Pastas at the Artisan Exchange, open to the public Saturday from 10 a.m.–2 p.m., year round at 208 Carter Drive in West Chester.
Feature photo credit: Nina Lea Photography; pasta with sauce photo credit: Aunt Mamie’s Specialty Pastas.
