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Aisle 02 · Italian pasta

Everyday pasta, elevated.

Bronze-cut durum wheat pasta in a paper bag with a window, so you can see the shape before you take it home. Bronze dies leave a rougher surface, and sauce holds on to it.

Bronze-cut durum wheat pasta, 16 oz (454 g)

A bag of Zia Nina Penne Rigate on a marble counter behind a bowl of penne in tomato sauce

The dry pasta.

4 varieties, one label. Each has its own colour band, so you can find yours from across the aisle.

Penne Rigate

Ridged quills that catch sauce inside and out.

Fusilli

Spirals for chunky sauces, pesto and pasta salad.

Spaghetti

Long, plain and essential. Arrabbiata’s best friend.

Farfalle

Bow ties, for butter and sage, pesto or a light tomato.

Penne RigateThe Zia Nina Penne Rigate pack: red name, Nina with her armful, a italian pasta band
On the shelf

The dry pasta, by the pack.

4 varieties on one label: the red name on top, Nina in the middle, the category under her, and a colour band with the variety in plain words.

Four bags of Zia Nina pasta with windows: penne rigate, fusilli, spaghetti and farfalle

Nina, in the dry pasta.

The same woman on every pack, with a different armful for every aisle. Fine etched linework, natural pigments, archival paper.

  • Nina carrying a sheaf of wheatThe wheat sheaf
  • Nina in a field of wheatWheat stalks
  • Nina twirling ribbons of pastaRibbon pasta