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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.
Spaghetti (from "spago," meaning "string"), the most easily recognized shape of pasta, is an extruded shape that originated in a small town near Palermo, called Trabia. You can eat spaghetti with ...
A dish of spaghetti alla chitarra, a long egg pasta with a square cross-section (about 2–3 mm thick), whose name comes from the tool (the so-called chitarra, literally "guitar") this pasta is produced with, a tool which gives spaghetti its name, shape and a porous texture that allows pasta sauce to adhere well. The chitarra is a frame with a ...
Ziti (Italian:) or zite (Italian:) is a shape of extruded pasta originating from the Italian regions of Campania and Sicily. [1] [2] It is shaped into long, wide tubes, about 25 cm (9.8 inches) long, that generally need to be broken by hand into smaller pieces before cooking. Ziti has similarities to bucatini but is much thicker.
Macaroni. According to Rodger Bowser, managing partner at Zingerman’s Delicatessen in Ann Arbor, Michigan, “it’s called macaroni and cheese for a reason!
Like other kinds of pasta, orecchiette are made with durum wheat and water. Eggs are rarely used. In traditional Southern Italian home cooking, the dough is rolled, then cut into cubes. Each cube is pressed with a knife, dragging it on the board and making it curl (making a cavatello). The shape is then inverted over the thumb.
Farfalle (Italian:) are a type of pasta. The name is derived from the Italian word farfalle (butterflies). [1] In the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, farfalle are known as strichetti (a local word for 'bow ties'). A larger variation of farfalle is known as farfalloni, while the miniature version is called farfalline.
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