Italian Pasta Increasingly Is Made of Wheat From the U.S. and Canada
- Adverse EU weather foils plan to limit Canada, U.S. supplies
- ‘The big question’ is will the trans-Atlantic trade continue?
Spaghetti is produced at a factory in Giano dell'Umbria.
Photographer: Victor Sokolowicz/Bloomberg
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Italy, the world’s biggest pasta consumer, can’t abandon the North American wheat used to make spaghetti and macaroni after smaller plantings and foul weather curbed output in the European Union.