Why Are There So Many Pasta Shapes? Forms, Places and Sauces in Italy
The pasta aisle seems to offer endless choice: spaghetti, penne, rigatoni, orecchiette, lasagne and ditalini. They are more than decorative variations. Each shape emerged from a meeting of dough, available wheat, tools, climate, storage needs and ways of eating. Sauces matter, but they belong to a w...
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