There are at least 350 shapes of pasta you can buy. Food blogger Dan Pashman apparently thought we could use one more. Pasta is one of the oldest processed foods, dating back several thousand years to ...

Most people know the story of Venetian explorer Marco Polo bringing noodles back home from China. It’s a fun story, but it’s also inaccurate: Pasta was already popular in Italy by the time Marco Polo ...

From penne to cavatappi, our favorite pasta shapes have fascinating stories to tell. A stroll down the pasta aisle at your ...

Introduction -- Whence pasta came : myths and legends -- Pasta ingredients -- Making pasta -- Pasta cookery -- Modern forms of pasta -- Noodles -- Recipes -- Appendix I : types of Italian pasta -- ...

It is said that Eskimos have eight words for snow, and the French have a dozen words for love. But in Italy, an uber chef could fill a small dictionary with the many different words for pasta. (Think ...

Even before the Romans arrived in Italy, the Etruscans who occupied the Italian peninsula had kitchen tools for making and cooking pasta. A bas-relief in an Etruscan tomb at Cerveteri, 30 miles north ...

There are at least 350 shapes of pasta you can buy. Food blogger Dan Pashman apparently thought we could use one more. While the history of this new shape has been heavily documented, including in a ...

There are at least 350 shapes of pasta you can buy. Food blogger Dan Pashman apparently thought we could use one more. Pasta is one of the oldest processed foods, dating back several thousand years to ...