What a carb up! Why young people have fallen back in love with pasta

They are rejecting clean eating and queueing around the block for plates of pasta. But is the trend due to the rise of Instagram or vegetarianism?

You would be forgiven for thinking pasta is struggling in these carb-concious, Instagram-centric times. After all, a big bowl of beige wheat hardly seems de rigueur. But pasta is popular again, thanks largely to the supposedly starch-averse twenty- and thirtysomethings.

Take Padella. The pasta place outside Borough Market in London is notorious for the queues of young professionals that snake from its entrance as mealtimes approach. Tim Siadatan, the chef and co-owner, had no idea when he opened the restaurant in 2016 that punters would be willing to stand in line for a plate of pappardelle. “It genuinely hadn’t crossed my mind,” he says. “We thought during busy periods a queue might form in the way a queue might form at lunchtime in Pret, but none of us imagined it would become a thing we’d have to manage.” Nowadays, 500 diners turn up every day to try its wildly popular fresh pasta dishes, such as the interminably Instagrammed pici cacio e pepe. In the past few years, a clutch of pasta-peddling rivals have opened across the city, from Pastaio in Soho to Campania & Jones in Bethnal Green.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2NxWoUq