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On a roll

It was on a trip home to Italy that Luisa Pollio and Tommaso Baldassarri hit on the idea of a mobile Italian kitchen. Luisa, 39, had recently discovered she was gluten intolerant, and, after many trials, her husband Tommaso (Tommy), 41, had developed a gluten-free fresh pasta which could compete with traditional pasta. Spurred on by feedback from friends, and inspired by the food truck scene in their home country, last year the duo set up Amaranto Pasta & Cucina, a gluten-free Italian eatery housed in a 1966 caravan.

From their base in Matakana, the couple

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