How The World’s Rarest Pasta Came Back From Near Extinction | Still Standing | Business Insider
Su filindeu, or "threads of God," is the rarest pasta in the world. For a century, it was made by a single family in the Sardinian city of Nuoro for religious celebrations. Today, there are fewer than 10 people there who know the secret to making the pasta as thin as a strand of hair. Secrecy nearly led to the dish’s disappearance, but now, the pasta is finding new customers abroad. We went to Italy to see how the process of making su filindeu is Still Standing.
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Maybe I’m old and sentimental but knowing that people are keeping these traditional artisanal methods alive brings joy to my heart
@winifredherman4214
2 ай бұрын
I’m practically licking my screen!
@mii_kay4514
2 ай бұрын
It also keeps surprising me how successful the artisans still are. Like that other video about concrete Tiles, they take long to make and are expensiv,e but the company keeps surviving. It puts into perspective how many people we are and that even if you create something that we seemingly already have an abundance of, there will ALWAYS be people who need that thing you make. It might sound wierd but sowing and embroidering makes me feel connected to the olden times where people didn't just do it for fun.
@NazriB
2 ай бұрын
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@BusinessInsider
Ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
the best way to preserve methods like these is probably to just make a Public step-by-step KZread tutorial so it could be followed forever
@teklife
2 ай бұрын
yea really, the guy's struggling with how to share the technique with people so the craft is not lost forever, and there are literally thousands of ways to do it online, youtube and instructables probably being amongst the best ways. it's like the people in eastern mediterranean freaking out about having too many blue crabs and not knowing what to do with them. boy would i love to have that problem.
@vidard9863
Ай бұрын
It's basically just that thousand strand pasta from China dried in a different way. It isn't sharing the information, it's getting people to take the time and do it.
6 years ago in a TV show about food around the world there was an episode about Sardinia and they showed this magnificent pasta. In that show they talked about only a few women in one village that knows how to make it and it looked like this pasta is going to disappear soon. It is so heart warming to see that people are making an effort to keep this tradition alive. I never had the chance to taste this pasta but it makes me happy that this tradition is spreading and there is hope for it. Thank you, the people that do this work, and those who made this video.
@vn8600
2 ай бұрын
it can't be any different from....pasta
@Call-me-Al
2 ай бұрын
@@vn8600 it is pasta, but different manufacturing methods give very different textures and mouthfeel. That's why experiencing ravioli feels different from linguini or farfalle and so on.
@jaeboogie2786
2 ай бұрын
Yeah it was from Great Big Story with Beryl.
@vn8600
2 ай бұрын
@@Call-me-Al Thank you for the explanation.
@BusinessInsider
Ай бұрын
Thanks for watching!
Strange how our society struggles to find any middle ground between total disappearance and disgusting over-commodification.
@murimurimrui
2 ай бұрын
It's like liking a new music. You keep listening to it alot in the beginning then you start to hate it, then later on it bounces back to normalish.
@nitsujri
2 ай бұрын
Well it makes sense. I don't want to make pasta like this. Most people don't want to. A company will only do it if it makes money. So there's only left art to keep it alive.
@ImARealHumanPerson
2 ай бұрын
Stunning and brave. How could you say something so virtuous..
@Turdfergusen382
2 ай бұрын
That’s what capitalism is all about. Profit is the only thing that matters.
@jnak974
2 ай бұрын
I don’t lose sleep over it. Regardless of whatever thing humans lose, something else will replace it eventually, only to become obsolete……. And then someone goes and rediscovers it. There’s not a whole lot of uniqueness in the universe, only the virtue and character of the soul.
He is my dad, i’m so proud of him, i love u dad❤️
@ImproMooray
2 ай бұрын
Which one? The guy at the tract restaurant?
@421rants2
2 ай бұрын
Way to go dad......so are you learning to make it too?..........= )
@teresafloris4575
2 ай бұрын
@@ImproMooray Luca♥️
@amritakesh
2 ай бұрын
God bless him and you ❤
@AlbinoAxolotl
2 ай бұрын
That’s so cool! It’s amazing to have a connection to such an interesting and scarce cultural heritage!
The only pasta you are allowed to break 😂.
@HeyThreshold
2 ай бұрын
Ahah but no, candele have to be broken too for example.
@hansmemling2311
2 ай бұрын
I always break my pasta because I like to live dangerously.
@SeanOHanlon
2 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@phrimphrao54
2 ай бұрын
@@hansmemling2311 you put pineapple on pizza right?
@nurrbreak1328
2 ай бұрын
@@phrimphrao54uhh yeahh,i like pineapple on pizza 😂
Looks like Dragons Beard candy, and I thought that looked hard to make. How beautiful to watch!
Dude doesn't want this pasta to be sold for a profit but his restaurant buddy is selling it as part of his $250 per person menu.
@Alsry1
Ай бұрын
$250 per person can mean paying for everything else except for the pasta.
@menwithven8114
Ай бұрын
Thank you. The fact he literally cites St. francis and a vow of poverty in relation to his pasta then cuts to one of the most expensive and exclusive restaurants in America is pretty much a slap in the face. Seriously though how dumb are people to take these videos seriously. I kind of wamt the pasta to die away so I don't have to listen to celebrities talk about it for the next 50 years
@gggggg-hs2tk
12 күн бұрын
This. This is exactly why Sardinians are so secretive about their traditions. Because so many of our crafts are sacred, and arent't meant to be tainted with money, but as soon as the knowledge of the craft leaves the island it gets slandered by ruthless people that just care about money! For goodness sake we can't even make our herbal medicine anymore because pharmacists from all over the world would constantly try to steal our recipes and our endemic herbs! And now there are only a few families that still do them (and they never ask for money in return), and these recipes risk dying with them because they're rightly afraid to spread the knowledge to the wrong person, who would just sell the recipes and destroy our environment too by overforaging rare herbs.
@pearlwhiteist
10 күн бұрын
$250 per person menu is actually cheap assuming it's a multi course meal with experience ingredients
Wish they went into how it eats - it seems like it had a very springy texture. They also didn't really go into any of the dishes it's used in - it just looked like nondescript broths.
@CountFab
2 ай бұрын
Sheep broth and pecorino
@RyanEglitis
2 ай бұрын
@@CountFab Wow, it's like I'm there. You can really taste the sheep!
@tondriasanders6306
2 ай бұрын
It’s a simple religious dish. There is really only one way to eat it. It sounds like you’d just make a simple broth and cook the pasta in it. Extremely. Simple. It was a dish served to religious pilgrims, penitent people, seeking to connect with a saint. It’s not fancy.
@dmcgee3
2 ай бұрын
I chuckled at that. Lamb broth would be a more accurate English translation, I’ve never heard anyone use the term Sheep broth before but I certainly will be now.
@3ikilee
2 ай бұрын
Yeah it’s giving dumpling more than pasta…
first man to learn and first man to give the pastas secrets for commercialization
I saw this pasta originally on the Pasta Grannies - a couple of British women traveling Italy and documenting rare pastas. I hope to get to try it someday.
Sounds like Dragon Beard candy in the way it is made
@MORGUEMAW
2 ай бұрын
i was about to comment this LMAO
@shadowfire04
2 ай бұрын
it's like dragon's beard candy but pasta. i love it
@castallyourspells
2 ай бұрын
拉面 , or hand-pulled noodles is made in a very similar way, except it's not dried and then broken into pieces.
@karenneill9109
2 ай бұрын
@@castallyourspellsYeah, very similar. Except that last step of layering. I think that’s probably the hardest part…
@KrazeDiamond
2 ай бұрын
Well it originated in China, so.
Things that die out rarely continues to have cultural significance. Gatekeeping who can make certain kinds of food is wildly silly.
@hansmemling2311
2 ай бұрын
I understand that that’s how it seems but Italy has a tradition of protecting crafts. Music, shoe making, weaving whatever it is artisans and experts always taught this orally to a select amount of students. Guarding the particular wisdoms they had from outsiders. It might seem silly but it comes from a place of looking for financial safety from a time where information wasn’t free and abundant like it is now. By protecting the knowledge of the trade people protected their livelihoods.
@OddWoz
2 ай бұрын
Exactly. It’s no wonder a tradition dies out when people keep it for themselves and don’t share… even with locals in their own village.
@WobblesandBean
2 ай бұрын
@@hansmemling2311 Yeah no, it's ridiculous and pointless to gatekeep something. Keeping the tradition alive is more important than your elitism at wanting to feel "special" for being one of the only ones who know how to make it.
@MrStone125
2 ай бұрын
@@WobblesandBean I mean, financial safety makes a lot of sense to me. Here's the thing tho, you don't NEED this either. It's just something you want, which isn't necessary.
@christopherchung7152
2 ай бұрын
Would you rather die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain?
This is a heartwarming story and Luca is a true bro for helping to keep the tradition alive. The pasta is so unique, I don’t think you need to worry that its origins will be forgotten as (I hope) folks would seek information about it as they encounter it. Bravo!
I love when he talks about the pasta talking to him. A true artisan.
That weaving technique needs much more saving than the pasta at this point.
@OddWoz
2 ай бұрын
I tend to agree.
@OddWoz
Ай бұрын
@@MeretrixTricks they’re talking about the baskets the noodles are dried on.
I believe this is some of the best content on the internet !! Educational, inspiring, culturally rich and diverse; is just incredibly well done and fascinating as well ! Thank you for the incredible work. 👏
Simply amazing video!!! Thanks for sharing!!!👍👏🏻🙏🙏🙏💖💖💖
"over and over and over...."?? it takes 8 times. EIGHT to reach 256. do you know what exponents are?
@jenelaina5665
2 ай бұрын
How many bundles of those times 8 for each in the final version you reckon? 3 layers x 8 x what 6-8 across? That's over and over and over
@_Dreamsmith_Magoo_
Ай бұрын
@@jenelaina5665 its only 8.
@menwithven8114
Ай бұрын
@@jenelaina5665256 is 2^16. That means from a single digit to 256 is 8 times something has to be doubled.
Two new bucket list items have been added
No matter how much people try to maintain culture and religion as is, they’re a part of life and are subject to change like everything else.
Me in China eating the most cheapest food from Pulled noodle places 😂,
@kishisetasama
2 ай бұрын
Same thoughts. Because for some reason, Italians balk when you call pasta noodles...when it is noodles. 🤣
@danilorossi8743
2 ай бұрын
@@kishisetasama Its not that noodles chinese eating, which I don't like at all. The italian Pasta is another thing. it is so difficult to understand and respect the traditions and cultures of other countries. People are so stupid caught up in globalization that they don't realize that everywhere in the world things are different. or the Chinese taken by their imperialism believed they had invented everything ! closed in their obtuseness mind when the truth is that they went from being a poor, agricultural country after the Second World War to capitalism exploiting low-cost single-manpower, hard work imitating Western technology and falsifying each of our products. And there is still a clear divide between China's coastal cities and inland cities
@euclideanspace2573
2 ай бұрын
Then you know 馓子 which is this really reminds me of.
@ahadabdul6263
2 ай бұрын
Fancy European….😂
@danilorossi8743
2 ай бұрын
@@ahadabdul6263 very very smart, Abdul. Its our culture. Learn to respect other culture like I do.
Looks yummy!
- I hope the tradition of weaving && pasta making continues. 🙏🏽 ❤
I liked this video!
"Threads of The God" is a metal af name, ngl.
If this was something of an online class to take. I would 100% wanna learn. I love learning new skills and food is my heart. I hope this catches on and the craft of making it continues on.
Wow Thank you for bringing attention to this
Seeing thumbnail + title, I thought this was a creepy pasta story. Then I realized this was just a Business Insider video.
@srahhh
2 ай бұрын
Hahaha the title is formatted just like those spooky short film channels, you're right
@HaloInverse
2 ай бұрын
It's not "creepy" pasta, just "unusual and misunderstood" pasta. 🙂
Excellent craft 🍝
this is so touching to me ❤
Looks like matza soup at the end. Or chicken noodle. Could combine the influences.
I think its poetic that the Pasta that welcomed traveling pilgrims seeking a religious awakening, as the penitent have dwindled, the Pasta has grown legs to go find those who seek Salvation.
@WobblesandBean
2 ай бұрын
Dude it's just pasta.
@shivathedemonkiller964
2 ай бұрын
@@WobblesandBeanWhat's wrong with being poetic?? Not everyone is materialist with a dead heart like you
@t1281
Ай бұрын
Pastavangelists
It makes me want to experiment and learn how to make it
I've actually eaten this, in a wonderful sheep broth. It was really good
BRAVO! Che bella. Grazie!
Brilliant. We need to keep this type of tradition alive.
Very cool.......= )
That is an INCREDIBLE looking broth! Would love to try this. Not try to make it tho...mad respect!❤😎
Wait who taught Luca? How did he learn?
@YasuTaniina
2 ай бұрын
I think he more or less taught himself. Found out bits an pieces from various women, but never the whole thing. Remembered what he saw his mom do growing up, etc. That's what it seems to me to mean when they say he "took matters into his own hands".
Amazing. Kick the Bucket Pasta.🎉
Looks real good.
I wish they would make KZread videos because I’d love to learn how to make it but will never be able to travel to Italy.
This feels so weird watching this video right after having read Gary's comment on the Pasta Grannies' Su Filindeu video a few weeks ago
❤😮😊 amazing!😊
if it tastes good people will buy and eat it. If not - it is just flour and water.
@ddegn
2 ай бұрын
Hey, there is also some salt in it.
My Filindeu teacher ❤
I tried a similar rice noodle before where they did something extremely similar. It was incredibly fine. Idk how it didn't crumble
5:33 "and beyond"? Aliens gotta eat, I suppose!
please tell me which chef in Germany prepares this dish. would like to try this.
*feels its morally wrong to make money off the pasta* *Teaches it to someone who proceeds to sell it at his restaurant*
@cheekibreeki904
2 ай бұрын
He's not making money off of it, so it still tracks. Whatever his students do, it's on them.
I would love to taste this and support it. It's made following the requirement of "bread" without leavening. 👍🏻
Bravo for keeping this tradition alive !! it looks so delicious !! I'm so curious about the texture of the pasta must be really really nice in the mouth :)
correct me, but is this basically just a dried lamien/mie tarik?
why didnt interview the women making su filindeu?
Okay, it's settled. I now HAVE to go to Sardinia in addition to Sicilia.
lol, so much hype about plain ramen. like literally it's just ramen.
What kind of flavor does the asphodel give the pasta?
Saw people making this all over Asia.
This would be perfect for Santa Fe, New Mexico. We have the Basilica to Saint Francis and there are weaving traditions here from the local Pueblos Indians(yes, that is how they call themselves, please no snark) and historic Spanish traditions. Hope someone brings it here.
I have never seen this noodle and I didn't know that Italians made noodle dishes that looked like soup/ramen noodles
I wish they would have talked about what makes it such a unique eating experience. Looks kinda like pasta to me...
@rsybing
2 ай бұрын
That's like saying there's no difference between eating spaghetti and eating linguine unless someone explains it to you.
@searchingfortruth619
2 ай бұрын
@@rsybing given that I won't be eating this food any time soon, yes I would need someone to explain it to me
@birdspi9324
2 ай бұрын
@@rsybing I can't tell the difference, put the same sauce and meat on spaghetti and linguine the flavor doesn't change, still pasta
@ETamJP
2 ай бұрын
There might be different varieties of wheat, different grinding methods and so on, but yeah, it’s just pasta/noodles. So long as the person eating likes the dish, it’s all good at the end of the day.
@i_am_a_toast_of_french
2 ай бұрын
@@ethanstewart9970 the shape of pasta doesn't really change how it tastes
I read all the comments below, and apart from a few and the ones of Luca's daughter, I'm really speechless of how much ignorance there is around the world. People talking about Sardinian languange as a dialect or saying that because of its religous origin this pasta is too complicated to be kept... damn... are you guys serious. I'm from Sardinia and I've been making pasta since I was 6 years old with my grandma... these are things that can not be explained if you don't live such experiences. I wanted to learn making Filindeu and tried many times alone, then I met a friend of Luca, which showed me how to do, but I still don't master the technique. I also made those that you call Chinese noodles (doing them easily). I can assure you, if you don't understand the difference between semolina flour and all purpose flour, then all what you're talking about is useless. Apart from if it tastes good or not, if it is Chinese or from somwhere else, it's a technique of an artisanal crafting, that needs to kept alive-if you're not from this island in the Mediterranean sea, how would you understand what makes it so special... you just see it as simple pasta..., an italian version of the Chinese noodles, too complicated to be done for just a simple dish... please, don't just comment because you don't have anything better to do.
@hansmemling2311
2 ай бұрын
Venice and Sardinië are the two places I want to visit in Italy really bad. Venice because my favourite composer is from there and Sardinia because it looks magical and culturally rich to me.
@sbinsdca
2 ай бұрын
You sound elitist 😂
@mackennzie9
2 ай бұрын
...but, now that you mention it, does it taste good?
@cheekibreeki904
2 ай бұрын
This mindset is one of the chief reasons why these fancy noodles nearly died out. I hope you're proud of that, too.
@elisasini.11
2 ай бұрын
@@mackennzie9 i like it very much. The texture of filindeu in sheep's broth is perfect to capture all flavours
Same technique as Lamian, except that the Lamian masters let the dough rest and make sure that it never breaks when streching it😄
As a pasta lover, I feel unworthy to do eat this pasta. There is so much heart and soul and history put into this pasta; I feel bad eating it as if some ordinary dish.
3:49 It's not "might stick" but "has to stick"
unnecessarily complicated, beautiful when dry, very ugly after cooked.
This is the kind of thing that I would relish in a restaurant because it's too difficult for me to learn myself. As opposed to eating something like a steak in a restaurant which is so ridiculously easy to make at home
I am wondering does it taste any different?
@MeretrixTricks
Ай бұрын
I think it's not so much about taste but more about texture.
lol why am I thinking this looks like the left over broken ramen noodles at the bottom a package
So extravagant how it's made. I would never be able to make it. I'll have to stick with Mexican fideo for .47¢
at 4:35 I think he says fresh pecorino instead of fermented
I seriously doubt that the old Italian way would have served a little larger portion. Lol
how come Claudia Romeo doesn't do these videos anymore? she was way better than this narrator
@RyanEglitis
2 ай бұрын
These guys are just interested in doing human interest stories over actually giving relevant information about things. They didn't even say how it is different to eat or what to serve it with.
Pretty cool. Wondering how they know it’s the oldest?
Il mio adorato maestro,Luca Floris...la mia AMATA MAMMA❤❤❤❤
It’s a brave man that goes against the Nonnas! ❤😅
same thing as lamien or dragons beard, this skill isnt going anywhere
It's the same process as making dragons beard candy. Stretch, fold, stretch, fold. Every time you fold you double the layers.
italian dragon's beard candy
"Traditionally only made by women" ... so here we interview men on how they make it. Makes sense.
@SeanOHanlon
2 ай бұрын
He was probably the only one who they could find willing to show and tell on camera.
@sophieledden1961
2 ай бұрын
Was thinking this too. It’s a shame to see that it looks like it’s primarily men profiting off of this financially, and it’s weird to me that this seemed to be glossed over.
Kinda remind me of dragon beard candy
Yay coincidence I got pasta for lunch
Sardinia's second most famous food, after (bon apetit!) casu marzu.
The narrator has some thick hair
As thin as a strand of hair? That's some thick-ass hair
I would like to learn that weaving
@sbinsdca
2 ай бұрын
Basket Weaving 101 🤭
It’s great he understood the importance of keeping the tradition alive by sharing his knowledge
Damn now I want to try it
Maybe it should be in the agreement that to learn how to make this pasta, they also have to learn how to weave and makes it a double package.
The baskets are gonna go before the pasta
If this was France they'd probably have a school teaching traditional basket weaving and how to make the pasta.
Miswa lang yan dami nyan dito sa Pilipinas hahaha
How does it taste?
They do this with sugar in some Asian countries. Its a candy there.
😅one of seven is think alot... locally 😅
Doesn't look like actual threads. It's more like chipped pieces of stuck threads.
This is how I play w slime
Chinese people does this for desert look it up. You go to myeongdong in South Korea some vendor does this for deserts.
Reminds me of the way the Chinese make their noodles by hand.