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The famous pasta-making women of Bari, Italy, are worried that a crackdown on contraband orecchiette pasta could threaten their way of life

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    I'd just seen the documentary about Evan Funke, the American chef who studied at the school of Alexandra Spisni in Bologna, Italy. Handcrafting in the age of increasingly sophisticated automation...

    I'd just seen the documentary about Evan Funke, the American chef who studied at the school of Alexandra Spisni in Bologna, Italy.

    Handcrafting in the age of increasingly sophisticated automation depends on wealthy patrons, as Evan Funke's case illustrates. Even at the poverty wages these expert women make, the comparatively low wages of the people who buy from them won't support their craft forever, especially given complex regulation and taxation.

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