Traditional Italian penne rigate pasta - drawn through bronze, so that the surface is rough, and ready to take whatever sauce you give it. This is a good shape to always have on hand.

Third-generation family-run Pastificio Sgambaro carefully chooses durum wheat varieties that give their pasta its truly high-quality flavor and texture.

Handful ready, Valencia almonds from Spain are some of the sweetest almonds in the world, and when you top them with a sweet sugary coating you have one of the best treats to eat, one by one or by the handful!

Wild almonds are bitter, even toxic, and when consumed in even small quantities can be fatal! Domesticated almonds however are not. Even before grafting, domesticated almonds could be as old as the Early Bronze Age (3000-2000 BC). Even King Tut had a few in his tomb.

Valencia almonds, with its flatter, more pointy tip, make it one of the distinct shapes in the almond world. And when specifically from Spain, these are some of the sweetest grown.