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 ...

Italian cuisine recognizes more than 300 traditional pasta shapes, while global estimates exceed 500 and sometimes even higher, depending on classification. That level of variation did not happen for ...

One of the tiniest kinds of pasta you’ll find at the supermarket is ancini de pepe. This itty bitty pastina gets its name from the Italian word for peppercorns, though this pasta is even tinier. Much ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five types of pasta on orange background - Static Media / Shutterstock / Getty If you're a fan of Italian cuisine, and pasta in ...

Show me someone who can turn away a bowl of heart-shaped cacio e pepe, and I’ll show you someone who needs a hug. It might be hard to find such whimsical pasta on the shelves of the grocery store, but ...

Pasta is a wonderful, versatile food that you can incorporate into thousands of dishes in so many ways. Did you know that there are around 350 different types of pasta? Yeah, we were surprised too!

Chances are you know linguine goes with clam sauce and fettuccini loves Alfredo. But which pasta pairs with pesto? Or a hefty carbonara? "Pasta has evolved over many hundreds of years in Italy, and it ...