Helena Tornblom | VSB Bologna

Pastahantverket

SWEDEN – Stockholm and Österlen

I am Helena and I am a Sfoglina.

I graduated from VSB- Bologna summer 2019 after a spring in Bologna full of eggs and flour.

I had been searching for exactly this kind of school for ten years – on and off.

Today I run a business called Pastahantverket in Sweden, mostly Stockholm. Pastahantverket means The Pasta Crafts Workshop.

What I do:

– I do workshops for everyone whom wants to learn the craft of doing pasta by hand; from ordinary people to chefs or other professionals. I do this in my own production and also together with Restaurangakademien, Stockholm. https://www.restaurangakademien.se/kurser/matlagning/pasta-fatto-a-mano/
https://www.restaurangakademien.se/forelasare/forelasare/helena-tornblom/

– I also do events, like PopUps at restaurants.

– Deliver to selected restaurants in the area of Stockholm and Österlen.

– And sometimes, when I have the time, I sell pasta that I have produced.

– During spring 2020 I made some instruction movies on You Tube

If you read this you know that all of us – educated at VSB- Bologna – use only our hands, bodies and mattarellos as tools.

The satisfaction that gives, is really deep. And it also feels like I – we all – honour all the women and men before us that practiced the art of pasta making. For me, it´s a mission to spread the artigianato della pasta as much as possible.