Pasta is everyone's favorite pantry staple. It can be a last-minute, eat-out-of-the-pan meal, or part of a fancy dinner-party menu. The popularity of pasta has gotten so widespread that even your local convenience store, once the place of spaghetti and elbows exclusively, might now carry up to a dozen different sizes and shapes of pasta. Someone could teach a college course on the various types of pasta; each shape has a traditional history and application. But you don’t need to go quite that deep to up your pasta game. Read more... |