STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Making pasta isn’t simple—even when it appears effortless. A walk through the back room of the newly opened Piccola Pasta Shop quickly dissolves any romantic notion that fresh pasta comes together in minutes. Ravioli alone can take up to eight hours, moving through a patient ritual of mixing, rolling, filling and resting before it ever meets boiling water at the new business.
For the home cook, the payoff is almost immediate. Fresh pasta cooks in minutes—a brief, satisfying reward for work that began long before it reaches the pot.
Echoing the patience required to make pasta by hand, Piccola Pasta at 3939 Amboy Rd. came together quietly over the course of a year, settling into a former veterinary clinic a few doors down from Piccolino Ristorante in Great Kills…