Lazzari

100% organic sauces
Lazzari sauces do not contain preservatives, additives or added sugar. Each jar of sauce is full of the authentic flavour of nature. When we make our sauces, we do it with love and care. We cook sauces as we do it at home, No use of machinery, only hands and  fresh, organic certified ingredients that come  exclusively from Italian organic farms. We know for sure where every single ingredient in Lazzari sauces comes from. Before choosing the raw materials for my sauces, I visited many farms and met many farmers. I have personally selected every single ingredient, deliberately choosing high quality produce, because I believe it isn’t enough to be a good cook when you want to make good food – you need to use excellent raw materials. Our vegetables and tomatoes, are produced in the fertile, sun-drenched plains of Puglia. The oil we use comes from the Abruzzo Region, basil from Campania, chilli pepper from Calabria and the meat comes from farms in Sabina areas of northern Latium and Tuscany, where the animals live grass feed, on large stretches of land. Our pesto sauce contains fresh basil, extra-virgin olive oil, italian pine nuts with mature Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. Capers are from Salina, Eolian islands, Sicily.

Food is health
I firmly believe that food is very important for our wellbeing and that eating well means, above all, being aware of what we eat. Today, many people are in search of food products from small, artisanal businesses, which use low environmental impact production systems and are careful to preserve our biodiversity and ecosystems. In this context, organic nutrition presents us with a unique opportunity to choose a sustainable diet that does not harm our health, environment and society in the long term. What is more, a healthy “food culture” gives us the chance to learn to take care of our bodies every day with food, exactly as Hippocrates said over two thousand years ago: “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.”

My life is a combination of magic and pasta, where dreams, seasoned with a touch of good sauce and a lot of love, can sometimes turn into reality. My name is Diego Lazzari. My family comes from Naples and I was taught to value three things as I grew up: good taste, simplicity and harmony, which were the characteristics of the dishes prepared in our home, all of them simple, tasty and above all, delicious. My grandmother, my mother and my brother Luca, masters of the culinary art, used their talent, taste and creativity to interpret these delectable recipes, which have remained engraved in my memory. I want to recreate their flavour for you with my sauces. I owe my passion for cooking to my family. The Lazzari pasta sauces are a small homage to my family’s culinary tradition, passed down from mother to son. They are my contribution to make sure we don’t forget the story of food, which is an integral part of the history and culture of our country.

“In the early 1700s, the Neapolitan pasta market underwent rapid growth, thanks in part to the Lazzari, people belonging to the lower class. They made pasta their emblem, and became symbolic figures of the Neapolitan culture and tradition. The Lazzari, also known as “mangiamaccheroni” (macaroni eaters), became a sort of tourist attraction, thanks especially to the curious way that they ate pasta: they held the plate with the right hand and with the left one they picked up the strands of pasta and raised them to their mouths.” L’Italia della Pasta di C. Ortolani.

“In those days, the Lazzari weren’t the only ones who ate pasta. The Bourbon King Ferdinand IV, son of Don Carlos and known as “O’Re Lazzarone” (“The Rascal King”), was known for his passion for macaroni. An English traveller described him thus: “He grasped the strands with his fingers, twisting and stretching them, and then stuffing them voraciously into his mouth, disdaining with great magnanimity the use of knives, forks and spoons or any other instrument excepting those that nature put at our disposal. This display, I must confess, surprised me more than anything else I saw, be it in a King or in a subject.” An English traveller – John Dickie in The Delizia! The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food

La Smorfia is the book of dreams, used in interpreting dreams to find numbers to play Lotto.
The origin of the word “smorfia” is unknown and lost in the mists of time, but it is commonly believed that it originates from Morpheus, the ancient Greek God of dreams. The “smorfia” is traditionally believed to have originated in Naples, a city that has a long-standing tradition and love for the game of Lotto.
The “Smorfia” associates a word, an event, a person or an object with one or more numbers, using a code that assigns a number according to the context. For example the number for “bet” is 79, but this changes, depending on whether you are betting on horses (81), playing Lotto (33), betting on football (50), cards (17) or chess (22) and so on.
I had some dreams and chose the numbers from the “Smorfia” that were most appropriate for my sauces.

01 “I’Italia” (Italy)
The Italian flag shares its colours with the favourite dish of Italians:
Lazzari Il Pomodoro e Basilico – with the three colours of the Italian flag. The green comes from the basil, the white from pasta and the red from tomatoes.

04 “O’ Maiale” (The Pig)
Pork, and especially the tuscan brown pig variety, makes the flavour of Lazzari L’Amatriciana sauce unique.

49 “O’ Piezzo di carne” (A piece of meat)
The carefully selected high quality meat of Lazzari Il Ragù alla Bolognese, intensely flavoured.

50 “Il colore verde” (The colour green)
This is the colour of our fresh, aromatic basil and the unmistakable colour of Lazzari Il Pesto.

68 “Arrabbiarsi” (Getting angry)
A perfect match for our Lazzari L’Arrabbiata sauce.

27 “The capers”
The unparalleled scent of capers from the Aeolian islands that spreads from the Tomato, basil and capers sauce.

47 “La Verdura” (Vegetables)
The wonderful flavour of our Lazzari Il Ragù di verdure, comes from fresh and healthy vegetables.

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