The protagonist of Marta Scalabrini's cuisine Puffute Zucchini enclose a bucolic filling: very thin egg pasta ribbons embellished with pine nuts and champignon mushrooms, mixed with the taste of a ricotta perfumed of juniper berries. The contemporary picnic. "Spain was a period of profound human enrichment for me, while Tuscany represented the professional turning point. I returned to Emilia because the story we know better is the one that flows inside us. And the stories are the ingredients main of my dishes. " Chef Marta Scalabrini The magic of the egg gives life to a gold -colored pasta that in a few minutes of cooking reaches the perfect consistency for your every dish.

The brand

Barilla G. and R. Fratelli S.p.A, simply known Barilla, is an Italian multinational company in the food sector, operating in the dry pasta market, ready -made sauces, baking products, flour and bread.

Barilla was founded in 1877 in Parma in Strada Vittorio Emanuele 252 (today Strada della Repubblica) by Pietro Barilla Sr., Descending from a family of panettieri; The activity was born as a shop for the production of bread and pasta.

The company enlarged in 1908. In 1910 the Barilla rented a building (which later became the owned of them) not far from the shop, just outside Barrier Vittorio Emanuele, and inaugurated a new pasta factory, equipped with a ""continuous production oven "". In the same year, the Parmesan sculptor Emilio Trombara made the first brand of the company, ""The Garzone with the egg"". The egg - with reference to egg pasta - became the graphic brand of the company; For many years the logo was precisely a stylized egg, with the name of the company inside the red yolk surrounded by the white albume.

After the death of Pietro Barilla sr. The direction of the company passed entirely in the hands of the sons Riccardo and Gualtiero. It was since then that Barilla increased the production and distribution of products, thanks to a technological innovation that would allow it to transform quickly, during the 1920s and 1930s, into the most important company in the sector in Emilia-Romagna.

Advertising slogan

While in Italy, for the Barilla pasta, the slogan was used ""where Barilla is home"", they used very different ones in other countries: in the United States of America, Barilla is known as The Choice of Italy (Trad. ""The choice of Italy""), while in French one is used similar, les pâtes préférées des italiens (trad. ""The favorite Italian pasta""). From 2017 to 2021 the Slogan Masters of Pasta has been used internationally. From April 2021 the slogan used is to sign of love, in Italy a gesture of love.