A s her name suggests, the food writer and author Rachel Roddy is not Italian. It's something that she points out within the first two minutes of our video call, speaking from her home in Rome, where she has lived for 18 years. She refuses to bill herself as an authority on Italian food ('I don't consider myself an expert,' she repeats several times during our conversation), despite having written three cookbooks on the subject — the latest, An A-Z of Pasta: Stories, Shapes, Sauces, Recipes , is a mini encyclopaedia devoted to Italian carbs.

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