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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.
Angel hair (aka capelli d’angelo) is a very thin, long, dried pasta shape sold in "nests." In Italy, it is used to prepare dishes for small children to get them used to solid foods, broken into ...
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 ...
Trofie are shaped by rolling a small piece of dough on a flat surface to form a short, round length of pasta with tapered ends, then twisting it to form the final shape. It is around 2–3 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long with a diameter of roughly 4 mm (3 ⁄ 16 in). In Ligurian cuisine, it is most typically served with a pesto sauce.
Think you're a pasta expert? Most of us are familiar with spaghetti, penne and rigatoni, but what about the others you see on that restaurant menu that you aren't so sure of?
Cavatappi is a generic name adopted by other brands that imitated Barilla's cellentani.This particular shape was born in the 1970s at Barilla in Parma, [5] when a set of pasta dies had been mistakenly made with a spiral (instead of straight) set of lines.
The waiter saunters over to take your order and, cool as a cucumber, you say: "I'll have the orecchiette, grazi." Except it doesn't go quite as planned.
Both dried and fresh pastas come in a number of shapes and varieties, with 310 specific forms known by over 1,300 documented names. [6] In Italy, the names of specific pasta shapes or types often vary by locale. For example, the pasta form cavatelli is known by 28 different names depending upon the town and region. Common forms of pasta include ...