This sausage and swiss chard pasta makes great use of it. Nope, it's not rice! Orzo is actually a rice-shaped pasta that gets its name from the Italian word for barley. This tiny pasta (a kind of ...

Right up front — pasta, meaning "paste" in Italian, hasn’t been in common usage that long. Neither has Italy as a country. It ...

Did you know that it's now easier than ever to make fresh pasta? It's widely agreed that the shape of pasta does impact its taste in terms of surface area, texture, and the presence of nooks and ...

From short rigatoni to ribbony pappardelle, pasta comes in all shapes and sizes. Here are some tips from a chef for what to use when. The Picture Pantry/Getty Images There are seemingly countless ...

Quick, simple and – much as I hate the word – tasty ... beetroot or squid ink. The shape of pasta used depends on the dish being cooked. There is pasta for soup, for serving with sauces ...

There are at least 600 different shapes of pasta are made all around the world, and each type has its own purpose.

How can I work out which pasta shape goes with which pasta sauces? There are over 350 different types of pasta in Italy. So how are you meant to go through each one? It turns out that that vast ...