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Pasta is believed to have developed independently in Italy and is a staple food of Italian cuisine, [1] [2] with evidence of Etruscans making pasta as early as 400 BCE in Italy. [3] [4] Pastas are divided into two broad categories: dried (Italian: pasta secca) and fresh (Italian: pasta fresca).
Like other pasta, spaghetti is made of milled wheat, water, and sometimes enriched with vitamins and minerals. Italian spaghetti is typically made from durum-wheat semolina. [3] Usually the pasta is white because refined flour is used, but whole wheat flour may be added. [4] Spaghettoni is a thicker form of spaghetti, while spaghettini is a ...
Rigatoni (US: / r ɪ ɡ ə ˈ t oʊ n i /, Italian: [riɡaˈtoːni]) is a type of pasta. [1] [2] [3] They are larger than penne and ziti, and sometimes slightly curved, but not as curved as elbow macaroni.
Garganelli (Italian: [ɡarɡaˈnɛlli]; Romagnol: garganéi) are a type of egg-based pasta from the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. They are formed by rolling a flat, square noodle into a cylindrical shape over a ridged wooden board, giving the pasta ridges. Garganelli resemble ribbed quills with points at both ends. [1]
Tagliolini (Italian: [taʎʎoˈliːni]) or taglioni is a type of ribbon pasta, long like spaghetti, roughly 2–3 mm (3 ⁄ 32 – 1 ⁄ 8 in) wide, cut from a sheet of dough similar to tagliatelle, but thin like capellini.
Fettuccine [a] [b] is a type of pasta popular in Roman cuisine.It is descended from the extremely thin capelli d'angelo of the Renaissance, [2] but is a flat, thick pasta traditionally made of egg and flour (usually one egg for every 100 grams or 3.5 ounces of flour).
Pappardelle (Italian: [papparˈdɛlle]; sg.: pappardella; from the verb pappare, meaning 'to gobble up') are large, very broad, flat pasta, similar to wide fettuccine, [1] originating from the Tuscany region of Italy.
Vermicelli with a lemon-pecorino fonduta with fennel fronds and bottarga. In 14th-century Italy, long pasta shapes had varying local names. Barnabas de Reatinis of Reggio notes in his Compendium de naturis et proprietatibus alimentorum (1338) that the Tuscan vermicelli are called orati in Bologna, minutelli in Venice, fermentini in Reggio, and pancardelle in Mantua.