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Made In Connecticut: Nuovo Pasta in Stratford  

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This week in Made in Connecticut. It's a taste of Italy, but right out of Stratford, we take you to Nuovo Pasta where award winning Ravioli Tortellini and more are on the menu. I really think that pasta is real joy and love in a food product is the founder and CEO of Nuovo Pasta in Stratford. He started his career in financial services in the Go go eighties. But in 1987 when the stock market crashed, that boom became a bust. But I had always wanted to start my own business and that crisis in the financial market was the catalyst for me to take a look at what that business might be. So Elli swapped his pinstripes for pasta. The problem he didn't know anything about making it. That's until the 23 year old asked the owner of the restaurant Pasta Nostra in South Norwalk to teach him. He said, well, I'll tell you what if you're willing to cook with me at night, I'll teach you how to make pasta. So I did and that was the beginning of the company that eventually caught the attention of chefs like Emeril Lagasse who used it in his restaurants. As did the executive chef at the White House today, Nuovo Pasta has grown from a small factory in Fairfield to three facilities in Stratford making sauces and more than £400,000 of pasta. A week for Whole Foods Trader Joe's Shoprite Aldi and more is close to £2000 an hour. But it tastes like it were made in a £5 bat because we have a culinary team that puts together the fillings fillings created by chefs and made on site using smoky mozzarella. Saut ed mushrooms, ba chael sauce for crab and spinach. But this is a honey roasted pumpkin filling with sage. So this pump is from Italy and it's a specialty pump and it allows us to precisely portion the filling into each ravioli state of the art equipment that trolley car system which runs on this track has two separate cars. So one would take the orange, one would take the yellow that produces weighs and packages, artisanal, homemade style sauces and pasta. We saw it being made. Now it's being stored, but by the way, it doesn't stay here more than a week. Ok. So everything has to be really in and out a long way from that 23 year old kid knocking on the restaurant door. Right. It's a long way from that 23 year old kid, but it feels like it was yesterday. I, I think I'm in love you. You're half Italian So. Oh, nothing like pasta. It just looks good. And, you know, it's nice. They also work within the community. They work with the Bridgeport Rescue Mission and other charities. So, yeah, really, really wonderful to get back to the local, the local community.

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