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A group of Italian grandmothers are winning the hearts of young people across the world after being featured on a YouTube channel where they teach traditional ways to make pasta.
Food writer Vicky Bennison, 59, runs the channel which went viral this week, when it's subscribers jumped from 45,000 to 178,000.
The Pasta Grannies, or nonnes, was started four years ago when Ms Bennison jetted to her second home in Italy from south London.
Since, she's travelled to kitchens all across the country, made more than 170 videos and racked up 1.8million views in the process.
The Grannies, some in their nineties, want to preserve the traditional methods and share them with the world as increasing numbers of young Italians opt for dried pasta and ready made sauce over making it from scratch.
The most popular video shows Salvatora making Filindeu pasta, that's only prepared by three women in its native Sardinia prepare.
Another, also in Sardinia, shows 95-yea-old Giuseppa Porcu, who has more than 80 years experience preparing a macarrones de unghia with a tomoato sauce and basil leaves.
Comments include 'that is beyond cooking. That is a freaking work of art' and 'looks divine! I want to make this!'
The videos showcases cooking and women from all parts of Italy and highlights the country's diversity.
Most recently, Ms Bennison posted a video of the grannies making Albanian style tagliatelle, and others include those from the Balkans and with Ottoman influences.
Ms Bennison now treats the channel as a full-time job, and hopes the recent surge in followers will increase advertising revenues to make the operation profitable.
Her next steps include bringing out the book she originally investigated and a series deal with Instagram's new channel IGTV.
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Video trailer:
Pasta grannies channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCedsqpl7jaIb8BiaUFuC9KQ
Media articles:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6046547/Pasta-Grannies-unlikely-YouTube-hit-vlogs-cooking-skills-seen-1-8million-times.html
and
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pasta-grannies-taste-fame-on-own-youtube-channel-bbznh3wn0
