Gemelli Pasta, 10 Pound -- 2 Case

I bought a bulk-sized box of this pasta in April 2020, the height of lockdown season, when a trip to the store meant taking one’s life into one’s hands only to face barren shelves at journey’s end. I had a need for gemelli—those toothsome double-helixes of durum semolina—and no store stocked it near the rural island where I lived then.The pasta in this original bulk box has followed me in my moves through three different homes in two different states. It has offered its warm unprepossessing comfort doused in cream on chilly nights, has soothed summer’s heat when tossed with handfuls of basil and garden tomatoes. This pasta has survived storage in boxes, bags, and half-gallon mason jars. The contents of the box appear not to diminish with time and consumption, but, in fact, to multiply.However much pasta you think you are getting for your money, I promise you, you are getting far more. Place an order for this product, and you will receive a wonderfully intimidating quantity of pasta. You will have to place a second order for a swimming pool, in which to bathe in the riches of your pasta hoard à la Scrooge McDuck.These two bags of pasta (can they really only be 10 lbs??) have become an institution in my home and life. Their comforting weight seems to symbolise their status as perhaps the most steadfast element of my youth in this tumultuous world. I expect I will still be scooping pasta from these never-ending bags when, decades from now, I prepare the wedding banquet for my youngest great-grandchild (and I don’t even have any plans for kids today).Where the past four years have brought us chaos, Amazon has given us Pasta, and that, I believe, may be enough to save us.