Mollie Stone’s Cooks Up Pasta Promo

Mollie Stone’s Markets, the Mill Valley-based grocery chain with nine stores in the Bay Area, has launched a sweepstakes promotion with TV chef Nick Stellino and the DaVinci Pasta brand, the company said this week.

The Cooking with Nick Stellino Sweepstakes offers Mollie Stone’s shoppers a chance to win an instructional DaVinci Pasta dinner with Stellino at Artesa Vineyards & Winery in Napa.

The sweepstakes, which runs through Sept. 25, can be entered at any Mollie Stone’s, including the one in the Bon Air Center in Greenbrae, the company’s lone Marin market. Twenty-five randomly chosen winners will be selected Oct. 3, with the event at Artesa set for Oct. 22.

The event includes a demonstration by Stellino, a native of Palermo, Italy, of pasta-cooking techniques in a classroom-style setting, during which he uses recipes he created for DaVinci Pasta. The group will dine together, tour the Napa Valley winery and receive copies of Stellino's new book, Cooking with Friends. Nick Stellino Cooking with Friends is also the name of the chef’s latest public television program.

“We are so excited to give 25 of our fans the chance to meet Chef Stellino and see him in action in such an amazing setting,” said David Bennett, co-owner Mollie Stone’s Markets, in a statement.

For more information about DaVinci Pasta, including recipes created by Chef Stellino, visit the website.