Although pasta types might seem like a straightforward category, a lot of the nuance comes down to marketing. Once upon a time, for example, different versions of spaghetti were distinguished by ...

This list is not nearly exhaustive, as there are, as I said, so many different shapes of pasta. But these 30 types of pasta are the most popular.

Coming from a home where pasta was not even part of a monthly meal, when I first moved to Italy as a student, I viewed all pasta as, well, pasta. You had it fresh when you had time (or a nonna was ...

Turns out, there's more to cooking pasta than simply boiling it. You have to consider the shape, too, especially if you're mixing various pastas.

This makes it the 6th highest food per capita in the country. Collectively, the U.S. consumes 5.95 billion pounds of pasta per year. The average American consumes approximately 20 lbs. of pasta ...