Pasta's history can be traced through many cultures & continents from Asia, Africa to Middle-East, reaching back at least 3500 years. apart of all the facts pasta seems to be associated with Italian cuisine.
The word "PASTA" literally means, "paste" in Italian dialect, basically a dough made with durum wheat flour, water & egg yolks. Made into diffrent shapes & cooked in boiling water & tossed in a variety of sauce before serving.
Did you kow there are over 600 types of pasta, and some have over 1300 names.
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Macaroni is dry pasta shaped like narrow tubes. Made with durum wheat, macaroni is
commonly cut in short lengths; curved macaroni may be referred to as elbow macaroni.
Some home machines can make macaroni shapes but, like most pasta, macaroni is usually
made commercially by large-scale extrusion.
Penne is an extruded type of pasta with cylinder-shaped pieces, their ends cut at an angle.
Penne is the plural form of the Italian penna, deriving from Latin penna, and is a cognate of
the English word pen.
Farfalle are a type of pasta commonly known as bow-tie pasta or butterfly pasta. The name
is derived from the Italian word farfalle. In the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, farfalle
are known as strichetti. A larger variation of farfalle is known as farfalloni, while the
miniature version is called farfalline
Fettuccine is a type of pasta popular in Roman and Tuscan cuisine. It is descended from the
extremely thin capelli d'angelo of the Renaissance but is a flat, thick pasta traditionally
made of egg and flour.
Spaghetti is a long, thin, solid, cylindrical pasta. It is a staple food of traditional Italian
cuisine. Like other pasta, spaghetti is made of milled wheat and water and sometimes
enriched with vitamins and minerals. Italian spaghetti is typically made from durum-wheat
semolina.
Fusilli are a variety of pasta that are formed into corkscrew or helical shapes. The word
fusilli presumably comes from fuso, as traditionally it is "spun" by pressing and rolling a
small rod over the thin strips of pasta to wind them around it in a corkscrew shape.
Rigatoni are a form of tube-shaped pasta of varying lengths and diameters originating in
Italy. They are larger than penne and ziti, and sometimes slightly curved. If so, they are not
as curved as elbow macaroni.
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