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Some pasta varieties are uniquely regional and not widely known; many types have different names based on region or language. For example, the cut rotelle is also called ruote in Italy and 'wagon wheels' in the United States. Manufacturers and cooks often invent new shapes of pasta, or may rename pre-existing shapes for marketing reasons.
Conchiglie (Italian for "shells"), the easily recognized shell-shaped pasta, come from the Campania region. This pasta is found in three shapes: the small size (conchigliette), which is commonly ...
The organizing principle of classification is the morphology of each pasta shape, reduced to its elemental characteristics and expressed by simple mathematical relationships. [3] Shapes which may look dissimilar at first glance, such as Sagne Incannulate and Cappelletti , may still be described with the same mathematical relationships and hence ...
Tagliatelle are also mentioned in 1593 among the main pasta shapes by the humanist Tommaso Garzoni. [ 4 ] A glass case in the Bologna chamber of commerce holds a solid gold replica of a piece of tagliatella, demonstrating the correct width of 8 mm ( 5 ⁄ 16 in) when cooked, [ 5 ] equivalent to 6.5–7 mm ( 1 ⁄ 4 – 9 ⁄ 32 in) uncooked ...
Macaroni. According to Rodger Bowser, managing partner at Zingerman’s Delicatessen in Ann Arbor, Michigan, “it’s called macaroni and cheese for a reason!
Orecchiette is the emblematic pasta shape of Apulia. Eggs are an essential ingredient for pasta in Northern Italy, but in Apulia and other regions of Southern Italy only semolina and water is used. This was done mainly for economic reasons, because eggs were considered too valuable for an everyday dish like pasta.
The cavatappi shape is perhaps best described as a ridged tube extruded into a helix shape through a small number of rotations. The number of turns is commonly in the range of one to three [citation needed] (with less than one full turn, the shape degenerates into a twisted version of elbow macaroni).
Flat-pack pasta was created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.