Now, you could just buy a box of penne pasta, use it for all sorts of quick-fix dinner needs and call it a day.But give this a thought: Penne pasta is but one of more than 300 different Italian ...

This pasta is eaten with all types of sauces, but particularly fish-based sauces, such as its namesake Neapolitan dish, calamarata, which uses calamari cut the same width as the pasta.

Finally, some types of pasta are available in two (or more) slightly different versions. For instance, penne rigate (ridged penne) have a ‘smooth’ counterpart: penne lisce.The same goes for spaghetti, ...

How well do you know your types of pasta? Guido and Aurelio Tanzi, Italian brothers living in New York, perfected the fusilli-making machine 100 years ago. In the decades since, the helter-skelter ...

Pasta, we’d like to think, isn’t just a food, it’s an emotion. And the ever effusive Italians have outdone themselves with over 350 varieties of the world’s most popular food.

Today (October 25) is World Pasta Day. Pasta is one of the world's most loved dishes, and today we celebrate it. This is a day given to celebrate the joy that is pasta - from spaghetti, macaroni ...