Corzetti Stamp

Little coins of pasta with an outsized history. Each corzetto disc is pressed by hand using a carved wooden stamp — like this one — to emboss the surface with a motif before it ever sees a sauté pan.

Legend has it that during the Renaissance, wealthy and noble Ligurian families commissioned their own stamps, carved with their family coat of arms, so that even a humble plate of pasta arrived bearing a crest.

The stamped pattern isn't just for show, though. Those ridges and indentations are highly functional — they catch and hold sauce, turning every little corzetto into its own small, edible plate.

This stamp is carved from pear wood, following Italian tradition, and finished with an iris motif — what Italians affectionately call the giglio. Press it into rounds of fresh pasta and you're not just making dinner: you're handing your table a five-hundred-year-old party trick.