Let's start telling "our" Puglia with a series of  interviews with particular and significant people of this region:  artists, craftsmen and entrepreneurs are leaving a mark on this land.

The first interview through which we open our website is with Anna Cirignola.

She  defines herself as a "free researcher", and there is no more beautiful  definition to describe her, Anna is in fact a woman always searching, in  art, in spirituality, in life.  Among the many things she does there is  a very special one: La Casa dei Maestri, a privileged place for those  who love silence, nature and feel the need to get to know each other.  

  Can you tell us the story of your pasta factory, when and how it was born?

The Cavalieri family already produced wheat after the unification of Italy, then the country was invaded by soft wheat that cost much less and this caused a big crisis, my great-grandfather understood that things had to change and therefore left for the north to introduce there the hard wheat that cost less and its processing systems, my grandfather then, after graduation, asked his father a small allowance to stay a month or two abroad, and in a few years, when he returned, he built the mill and the pasta factory. He was a person of few words and to his 83 employees he only said that since they had the best plants and the best wheat they also had to make the best pasta. This pasta represents the prestige of me, my family and our land, each package must tell the effort and passion that we put into making it, we have never done advertising, just word of mouth, it is the quality of our pasta that has always paid off. Since, being small, we couldn't compete with the big producers, we aimed at the highest quality. Ours is an extraordinary product with a recognized uniqueness, we just made people fall in love with our pasta.