Meet Michela
Pasta is a religion for Michela, learned from her mother at home in Torino and her grandmother at the family’s olive orchard in inland of Naples. After Tartaglia’s sabbatical year in Seattle, it also led to a new life, as local produce and pristine seafood replaced the classics texts of her academic career. In 2018, she opened Pasta Casalinga, a casual lunch counter, using simple recipes that embrace local culture and reflect Michela herself: rooted in Italy, passionate about the Pacific Northwest, and, above all, fun.
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Pasta Casalinga
Pasta Casalinga features housemade pasta in rustic dishes that spotlight Pacific Northwest ingredients. Cook and owner Michela Tartaglia’s playful creativity and deep Italian culinary roots showcase seriously good food, without taking anything too seriously.
The lively lunch counter, perched over the Atrium in Seattle’s iconic Pike Place Market, uses the same seasonal, local produce, seafood, and meat as sold in nearby stalls.
Michela weaves elk into ragù and dresses spaghetti alla chitarra with local sea urchin, keeping Pasta Casalinga’s small menu exciting. Though dishes change every few weeks, the unique mix of Italian style and local flavor stays the same – as does the signature lasagna.
Opening Hours
Mon – Sun
11am > 4:45pm
Rossodoro
by Pasta Casalinga
SUGO DI POMODORO
Ready to go tomato sauce made with 100% tomatoes from the remote island of Sardinia, Italy, where both the Mediterranean climate and the mineral rich soil create a naturally sweet taste to the tomatoes. Combine it with your pasta, rice, eggs and/or use it in any recipe that calls for a delicious sugo di pomodoro.
NATURALLY VEGETARIAN AND GLUTEN FREE. ALL NATURAL INGREDIENTS, NO GMOs, NO ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, COLORS AND PRESERVATIVES.
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Books
Michela Tartaglia, the cook and owner of Seattle’s Pasta Casalinga, cooks like she assembles an outfit: using her natural Italian style to pick things that reflect her colorful personality. In Pasta for All Seasons, she shares vivid stories and creative recipes that combine her Italian culinary heritage with the Pacific Northwest’s bounty.
Pasta for All Seasons
Dishes that celebrate the flavors of Italy and the bounty of the Pacific Northwest
22.95$
“Una mela al giorno” is a small guide for travelers and readers fascinated by other cultures and for those who are always looking for an expression that always "fits perfectly". More than 2 years of work in 66 illustrations for 104 proverbs and expressions in 4 different languages (Italian, French, Spanish and English). Fully illustrated by Daniele Simonelli.
AVAILABLE VERSIONS
ENGLISH
ITALIAN
GERMAN
An Apple A Day
25 Surprisingly Universal Idioms & Their Origins
$ 25.95
Hardcover
Published in Seattle
by Sasquatch Books, 2026
144 pages - 6 x 7-1/2 cm
ISBN: 9781632176189
Una mela al giorno
Proverbi e modi di dire dal mondo
€ 19.90
Hardcover
Published in Italy
by Nomos Edizioni, 2020
144 pages - 15,5 x 19,5 cm
ISBN: 9788894811872
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Nomos Edizioni
Andere Länder, andere Sprüche
Redewendungen in fünf Sprachen
€ 18.00
Hardcover
Published in Germany by
DuMont Buchverlag GmbH, 2022
Translated by
Alexandra Titze-Grabec
136 pages - 15,4 x 19,4 cm
ISBN: 9783832169022
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Dumont
Sardinian Experience
A 5 day exclusive retreat in the heart of the Gallura region
