Our History.


The pasta factory Caponi was founded 1953 as a little shop of fresh egg-pasta. The first transformation occurs in the sixties, when the little shop moves into larger rooms and becomes a workshop for fresh egg-pasta and dried pasta which were sold separately to the public or in wholesale to stores and restaurants. At that time the man who's writing this lines, Roberto Caponi, helped his father Piero Caponi (the one that had founded the business) and learned from him the art of creating pasta. We then sold our fresh and our dried products (tagliatelle, lasagne, tortellini etc.) in the province of Pisa and in some more provinces from Tuscany. But the decisive change overcomes in the eighties when Piero Caponi retires and passes the reins of the firm to the author. After 30 years of good working I decided to realize an idea that I had dreamed for a long time: cancel the retail sail, stop the production of fresh egg-pasta and stuffed pasta, make more perfect some existing products and create new ones with the characteristics and the quality that our products were used to have thanks to a production stroke nearly completely manual, with environment temperatures during the elaboration and low temperatures during the drying time. In poor words: make get perfect to the maximum our products and dedicate them to specific clients: gourmets and lovers of higher gastronomy. It was neither easy nor simple, but the fundaments were very good and CASA CAPONI grew and confirmed itself on national and international scene. The consideration of the mark CASA CAPONI grew a lot, but not so the production, which on the contrary diminished because of the difficulties deriving of the continuous desire to better us and to improve as if we were in competition against ourselves: only five persons, owners included, are able to produce circa 170 kg pasta a day, which decreases to 120 kg in the media because the same people pack the pasta and prepare the sending. That's the explanation of why the products CAPONI have an extraordinary quality and also a memorable price. Our steamers seem to have understood all this and seem to have received very well our cookery message, to judge from the great consideration for our work. We like to thank them for this and we want to assure them that we will try, if it's possible, to improve ourselves and that we'll always be careful that our products will be worthy of CASA CAPONI.