Hundreds of Italian restaurants are selling Amatrice's signature pasta to raise money for earthquake relief

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published 25 August 2016

The pasta dish that put one Italian city on the map could be integral to its earthquake recovery efforts. Just a day after the central Italian town of Amatrice was devastated by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake Wednesday morning, more than 600 restaurants in Italy are planning to put the town's famous spaghetti all'amatriciana, which The Guardian describes as "a pasta dish with a tomato-based sauce flavored with guanciale, or cured pork cheek," on their menus. For every order sold, the restaurants have reportedly pledged to donate 2 euros to the Italian Red Cross.