Italian pasta comes in many shapes. We break down what they are, and the best sauce pairings, cooking tips, and history to ...

Spaghetti has a lot of versatility and mixes with a variety of sauces. It is probably best known for being served with tomato sauce and meatballs, but it can also be paired with chunky sauces like ...

Pasta, a food darling of both Italy and America, comes in hundreds of shapes — more than 300 by some counts. There are long strands, round and flat, thin and wide, and twisty, ruffled, tube, and shell ...

Pasta truly is the food that keeps on giving. With hundreds of recipe combinations, it always brings the warmth of a home-cooked meal. A huge part of the joy pasta offers is its myriad shapes and ...

Looks aren’t the only thing that matters when picking pasta shapes. The shape you choose affects how sauces stick, how flavors develop, and even how the dish feels in your mouth. Most of the time, ...

When you’re serving a rich, creamy sauce, the pasta shape you choose makes a big difference. Some pasta shapes hold onto sauce better than others, giving you those perfect bites where the pasta and ...

Michelin-starred chef Stefano Secchi is the owner of NYC's Rezdôra restaurant. Specializing in pasta, Secchi helped come up with a guide to the endless shapes present on store shelves. If you're ...

Pasta is a favorite food around the world. Would anyone ever think of improving it? Dan Pashman did. For three years, Pashman, host of the food podcast, “The Sporkful,” chased inventing a new shape ...

From restaurant menus to the grocery aisle, you can find pasta in plenty of shapes—ears to elbows to bowties. But all were imperfect in the eyes and mouth of award-winning podcast host Dan Pashman. He ...

In my 28 years of life, I’ve spent an unusual amount of time contemplating the respective merits of various pasta shapes. I listened intently when “Sporkful” host Dan Pashman released “Mission ...