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Abruzzo has its own version of pappardella, the pasta is rougher and, thanks to its width, it captures stronger and richer sauces with ease, decisively influencing the taste of the finished dish. It goes perfectly with rich and tasty meat sauces, based on game such as wild boar. It is know to pair well with the famous duck sauce,traditionally made to celebrate the harvest of the wheat. In the Italian kitchen there are many traditional combinations of flavours and sauces that enhance the rusticity of this cut of pasta, however there also new recipes and combinations that are worth trying. The pappardelle with fish sauce, a seafood rag , or with mushroom sauce accompany this versatile pasta very well. It is impossible not to mention the pappardelle with truffles, which is traditional to Abruzzo and gives the unique flavor of this special land.