While baked ziti might be the most visually iconic baked pasta dish, it's ironically not the best shape for baked pasta. Ziti doesn't have those beautiful ridges that are more than just about ...

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One of the tiniest kinds of pasta you’ll find at the supermarket is ancini de pepe. This itty bitty pastina gets its name from the Italian word for peppercorns, though this pasta is even tinier. Much ...

Italian cuisine recognizes more than 300 traditional pasta shapes, while global estimates exceed 500 and sometimes even higher, depending on classification. That level of variation did not happen for ...

A native New Yorker of Mexican heritage, Diana Perez has spent the last 17 years working across the culinary media landscape. A graduate of Syracuse University (cum laude), Diana first worked in ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When I first packed my bags and moved to Florence, Italy, five years ago, I came as a culinary student ready to learn just about ...

Is it confusing trying to pick the right type of pasta for your dish from a wall of different pasta shapes at the grocery store? The average American consumes approximately 20 lbs. of pasta annually.

Pasta, a food darling of both Italy and America, comes in hundreds of shapes — more than 300 by some counts. There are long strands, round and flat, thin and wide, and twisty, ruffled, tube, and shell ...

Sfoglini and "The Sporkful" podcast creator teamed up to make two new pasta shapes. The shapes, quattrotini and vesuvio, are served in Italy but hadn't yet hit the US until January. I tried both and ...

When I first packed my bags and moved to Florence, Italy, five years ago, I came as a culinary student ready to learn just about everything in Italian cuisine, from tiramisu to tortellini. However, it ...