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Article: Pasta performance dishes up tasty prospects for the future
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 30, 1994
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ON SATURDAY evenings when Virginia Lopalco was a girl, in
Treviso, Italy, she would watch her mother make next week's pasta
dough. It was a good way to learn the skills that she now uses at
Crawley, Sussex, where she is the creative force and part-owner of
Pasta Reale - Britain's biggest producer of fresh pasta.
Mrs Lopalco, her husband Salvatore and brother Roberto Santi
typify the sort of immigrant success story more often associated
with New York.
It all started in the early Sixties, when Virginia came to
London, aged 17, to learn English. After working as a dining- room
maid at Eton for a couple of months ("The diet was appalling") she
worked for Frank Muir as an au pair.
Then she met ...