Nudi Pasta.The start-up of a fresh pasta business.

Any person that knows me well, knows I'm always thinking of new business ideas. I could probably say I've been doing businesses (or at least researching about them) all my life. It started in kinder garden with silk worms, $1 each, 2nd grade handmade hair pins, 3rd grade a small bank where my parents would "deposit" pennies, a monthly newspaper that covered 4th grader things like school crushes, then I got more fancy with holiday presents like brownies and cookies all nicely packed and everything.

Sharing some home-made brownies in Kinder garden.

My mom was always very supportive, and I thank her for taking me to buy ingredients, bulk colorful necklace beads, and waking up with me at 5 am to pack cookies in nice little bags to sell that morning in school.

My dad, even though he never woke up at 5, he always listened to my ideas and inspired me in a way that felt like I could do anything I wanted.

Now I'm grown up and it's time to start new adventures. But this time, with a bigger market than 5th graders. So through this blog I'll share with you my story, of the start-up of a small artisan pasta business, everything from ups and downs, and maybe you can one day become part of my adventure too.

Karla



21.4.09

From a laundry room to ... Nudi Pasta!

After months of testing flour, construction, working with distributors and dreaming of pasta... I'm proud to say that Nudi Pasta is ready to be launched!

Obviously I'm still under a learning process, and the following months will introduce me to new challenges. Nudi Pasta has already 4 scheduled route stops(check site for details), several types of pasta chosen as our initial offering (much more on the experimental station), an informational and hopefully fun website, an ecofriendly packaging and some great pasta add-ons like The Suegra's Pesto that might even steal the show.

In the future I expect to keep adding more creative confections, like raviolis and sauces and flavored pastas like the Bad Banana Ranch's Pepper pasta (a pasta with a good kick of spice, but not disabling!). We are also extending our garden, to provide us with herbs and hopefully one day with everything "veggie or herby" that we use.

I need to thank my family (mom dad and abuela) for all their help and specially for offering me their laundry room to be converted into a commercial kitchen and enduring the days of destruction and construction of the backyard! I need to thank Phil for all his unconditional love and help (which takes shape in many ways) and also my friends for being my guinea pigs!