"The Pasta Queen" Nadia Caterina Munno: Nonna's Lasagna
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Nadia Catarina Munno is best known to her 10 million social-media followers as The Pasta Queen, a glamorous, dramatic Italian who crumples her face in ecstasy and throws her fork across the room after slurping up a sauce-slicked noodle. Cooking traditional pasta dishes in her Florida kitchen has earned Nadia two bestselling cookbooks and a new Amazon Prime series, The Pasta Queen.
Nadia says she sees a lot of Americans committing unforgivable pasta-cooking crimes, so she created The 10 Commandments of Pasta, a list she shares with host Rachel Belle along with a story about what she ate immediately after giving birth to her third daughter.
Nadia comes from a long line of farmers and pasta-makers, but she spent decades bucking family tradition. So we’ll hear from Cara Nicoletti, a 4th-generation butcher who founded Seemore Meats & Veggies so her customers would eat less meat.
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.8 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal. |
| 0:23.2 | The show wears celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world. |
| 0:31.7 | Today on the program, Nadia Katarina Muno, better known as the Pasta Queen. |
| 0:38.2 | Just gorgeous. |
| 0:41.0 | Nonna would be proud! |
| 0:43.6 | Nadia's 10 million social media followers tune in to watch her make mouth-watering pastas |
| 0:49.1 | while dressed in glamorous outfits with long red nails and bold red lipstick. |
| 0:55.5 | Arrabiata means angry. Why? Because it's spicy. Just like you. |
| 1:00.3 | After she tastes her creations, Nadia's face crumples into ecstasy, and she passionately |
| 1:06.9 | throws her fork across the room. |
| 1:10.4 | It's magnificent. |
| 1:12.6 | Just like you! |
| 1:14.6 | Nadia's social media success has led to an Amazon Prime series called The Pasta Queen |
| 1:19.6 | and two cookbooks. |
| 1:21.6 | The Pasta Queen, a just gorgeous cookbook and the art of Italian cooking, both instant bestsellers. She also sells a line of jarred pasta |
| 1:29.2 | sauces at Walmart. Nadia comes from a long line of Italian pasta makers, but she initially |
| 1:35.2 | resisted joining the family business, eventually getting there on her own, in her own way. |
| 1:41.2 | So I chat with Kara Nicoletti about her career as a fourth-generation butcher, |
| 1:46.9 | who eventually spun off and found her own niche in the meat world. Nadia obviously has strong |
| 1:53.6 | opinions about pasta. Later in the show, she shares the worst crimes that Americans commit when they |
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